A thoughtful, quietly profound book * i paper * But it is her new book, widely billed a one of this autumn's best new reads, where she truly comes into her own * Sunday Times Magazine *Ī family story full of love and pain and insight * Herald, Books of the Year * One of the most celebrated novelists of our times. A searching, exquisitely wrenching novel about family, sacrifice and obsession * Sunday Times *
The Dutch House is a novel brimming with pain and tenderness in which Patchett's gifts as a storyteller are on full display. Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties * Observer *Īn intimate and transporting novel. The Dutch House is a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives - Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * A moving portrait of an unusual house and the unhappy family living in it * The Times, Book of the Year *Ī rare book, the kind you ration, one that grabs you by the heart and brain and pulls you right in - Philippe Sands * Evening Standard * The vicissitudes of life in a step-family unfold over five decades.
I don't think that there's a book of hers that I haven't put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after * Gillian Anderson * One of my top favourite contemporary writers. A masterpiece, I'd say - Cathy RentzenbrinkĪ gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance * Guardian, Books of the Year * Her best yet, which is saying something - John Boyne The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. The best book I've read in years - Rosamund Lupton Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature * Guardian *Ī wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel.
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