The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Condition: excellent. 

Mel recommends - A story about a house, a brother and sister, and the kind of love that quietly holds everything together. It’s gentle, layered, and completely absorbing. This is one of my top reads of 2025

'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?'

'Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with the icy forensic gaze of someone not afraid to expose the frailties of human behaviour'

JOJO MOYES