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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - win 5 copies for your group!

We’re offering FIVE book groups the chance to win five copies of The Dutch House, the dazzling new novel from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Ann Patchett. To enter, please email [email protected], with a few lines about your book group and why you’d like to read this book.

The Dutch House is an unforgettably powerful story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place. It describes the indelible bond between two siblings, Danny and Maeve, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is not to be missed.

PRAISE FOR THE DUTCH HOUSE:
‘One of my top favourite contemporary writers. 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.
‘Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties’ – The Observer.
‘The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something’ – John Boyne

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