Cressida Connolly

Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House is even better on second reading

Much goes on beneath the surface of this novel of sibling affection, an absent mother and a longed-for house of childhood memories

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  • The Dutch House

    Ann Patchett

    Bloomsbury, pp. 337, £18

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