The Dutch House by Ann Patchett #foliosociety ISBN: 9781408757468Extent: 160 pages

ISBN: 9781408757468Extent: 160 pages

As years pass and fires rage on

It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something

But all of a sudden

What if those he has long dismissed as crazed loonies actually have a point

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett #foliosociety ISBN: 9781408757468Extent: 160 pagesA STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CANT LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside. In the economic boom following the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's real estate investments take his family