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The red house a novel

Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem ali...

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Main Author: Haddon, Mark, 1962-
Other Authors: Caulfield, Maxwell. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [New York] : Random House Audio, p2012.
Subjects:
Families > Fiction.
Vacations > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Rich people > Fiction.
Family vacations > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 9:30:00.
Physical Description: 8 sound discs (570 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 09:30:00
ISBN: 9780307988355
030798835X
9780307988409
0307988406
Author Notes: Author and screenwriter Mark Haddon was born in Northampton, U.K. in 1962. He received a B.A. in English from Merton College and a MSc in English Literature from Edinburgh University. Since 1996, he has worked on numerous television projects. He has won two BAFTAs and The Royal Television Society Best Children's Drama for Microsoap, which he created and wrote 12 out of 25 episodes. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaption of Fungus the Bogeyman.

He has written fifteen children's books including the Agent Z series. In 1994, he was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize for The Real Porky Philips. He won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which provides a realistic insight into what it is like to have autism. He currently lives in Oxford with his family. He was runner-up for the BBC National Short Story Award with his title 'Bunny'.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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