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The Dutch house / Ann Patchett.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F PATC	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. On Loan .	25 Jun 2024
SF PATC	Stack Fiction		Adult Stack (Ask Staff)	. Available .

Catalogue Information
Field name	Details
ISBN	9781526614964 (hardback)
ISBN	9781526614957 (paperback)
Classification	F PATC
Personal Name	Patchett, Ann
Title	The Dutch house / Ann Patchett.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Production & Copyright Details	©2019
Physical Description	337 pages ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.
Subject - Topical Term	Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
	Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
	Stepmothers -- Fiction
	Poverty -- Fiction
	Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
	Families -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction