<p>Multi award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will be discussing The Dutch House.  </p><p>A dark modern fairytale set against the very real world of post-WWII Philadelphia, tracing the love between a brother and sister, their vanishing mother, distant father and jealous stepmother. Ann Patchett tells the story of a family over five decades with a finely balanced mixture of wit and heartbreak.</p><p>(Image: Ann Patchett. Photo credit: Emily Dorio.)</p>

World Book Club

BBC World Service

Ann Patchett: The Dutch House

MAR 1, 202449 MIN
World Book Club

Ann Patchett: The Dutch House

MAR 1, 202449 MIN

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<p>Multi award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will be discussing The Dutch House. </p><p>A dark modern fairytale set against the very real world of post-WWII Philadelphia, tracing the love between a brother and sister, their vanishing mother, distant father and jealous stepmother. Ann Patchett tells the story of a family over five decades with a finely balanced mixture of wit and heartbreak.</p><p>(Image: Ann Patchett. Photo credit: Emily Dorio.)</p>