Industry Reviews
Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature * Guardian *
Her finest novel yet * Sunday Times *
A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I've read in years -- Rosamund Lupton
Bliss -- Nigella Lawson
The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something -- John Boyne
What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I'd say -- Cathy Rentzenbrink
A gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance * Guardian, Books of the Year *
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 *
The vicissitudes of life in a step-family unfold over five decades ... A moving portrait of an unusual house and the unhappy family living in it * The Times, Book of the Year *
A rare book, the kind you ration, one that grabs you by the heart and brain and pulls you right in -- Philippe Sands * Evening Standard *
The Dutch House is a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times *
Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties * Observer *
An intimate and transporting novel ... The Dutch House is a novel brimming with pain and tenderness in which Patchett's gifts as a storyteller are on full display ... A searching, exquisitely wrenching novel about family, sacrifice and obsession * Sunday Times *
One of the most celebrated novelists of our times ... But it is her new book, widely billed a one of this autumn's best new reads, where she truly comes into her own * Sunday Times Magazine *
A family story full of love and pain and insight * Herald, Books of the Year *
Impeccably fine ... A thoughtful, quietly profound book * i paper *
The Dutch House offers ... A simultaneous awareness of human fragility and human resilience * Daily Telegraph *
As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life, rather than literature * Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year *
She uses her signature blend of wry humour, rage and regret in a tale of siblings who cannot escape the shadow of their childhood home * i *
Masterly * The Times *
An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and entirely engrossing -- Eithne Farry * S Magazine *
We're calling it now: The Dutch House will be the book of the autumn ... Her finest novel yet * Sunday Times *
Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett's shopping list -- Jojo Moyes
Patchett is a master at pacing and detail ... The question of what makes a home pervades this gripping book -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *
She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity -- Anthony Cummins * Metro *
Ann Patchett writes novels that quietly and thoroughly devastate the reader - in a good way. Her new novel is no exception * Red *
Patchett well deserves her reputation for compelling novels, and The Dutch House is her most enthralling yet * Vogue *
Wise and funny and unwraps the complexities of human beings with heartbreaking tenderness. I love this book -- Renee Knight
If there's a better, more poignant or involving novel than The Dutch House published this year, I will be very, very surprised * Andrew Holgate *
A dark modern fairy tale, a delicately woven portrait of a family in flux * Evening Standard *
The plot is gentle but firm while Patchett's prose dazzles with detail and nuance, spinning a story that tucks itself inside your heart * i paper *
Wonderfully astute ... Patchett's books ... have a sly comic undertow -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
A marvellously romantic and evocative novel about the nostalgic pull of a lost home ... Beautifully written and often tender ... That rare thing: a novel which reveals greater riches on a second reading -- Cressida Connolly * Spectator *
Beautifully imagined ... Patchett has excelled herself to produce one of the most moving and engaging novels this year * Daily Express *
Engrossing ... A captivating family saga about injustice and forgiveness * Daily Mirror *
Gothic and slyly comic, it's full of smart observations about sibling power struggles * Mail on Sunday *
