Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician's Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.

Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime - the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller

'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian

Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020

A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO.

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.

'The best book I've read in years' Rosamund Lupton

'Her finest novel yet' Sunday Times

'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' John Boyne

'A masterpiece' Cathy Rentzenbrink

'Bliss' Nigella Lawson

Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature

Her finest novel yet

A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I've read in years

Bliss

The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something

What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I'd say

A gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance

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

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

A rare book, the kind you ration, one that grabs you by the heart and brain and pulls you right in

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

Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties

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

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

A family story full of love and pain and insight

Impeccably fine . A thoughtful, quietly profound book

The Dutch House offers . A simultaneous awareness of human fragility and human resilience

As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life, rather than literature

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

Masterly

An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and entirely engrossing

We're calling it now: The Dutch House will be the book of the autumn ... Her finest novel yet

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

Patchett is a master at pacing and detail . The question of what makes a home pervades this gripping book

She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity

Ann Patchett writes novels that quietly and thoroughly devastate the reader - in a good way. Her new novel is no exception

Patchett well deserves her reputation for compelling novels, and The Dutch House is her most enthralling yet

Wise and funny and unwraps the complexities of human beings with heartbreaking tenderness. I love this book

If there's a better, more poignant or involving novel than The Dutch House published this year, I will be very, very surprised

A dark modern fairy tale, a delicately woven portrait of a family in flux

The plot is gentle but firm while Patchett's prose dazzles with detail and nuance, spinning a story that tucks itself inside your heart

Wonderfully astute ... Patchett's books . have a sly comic undertow

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

Beautifully imagined . Patchett has excelled herself to produce one of the most moving and engaging novels this year

Engrossing . A captivating family saga about injustice and forgiveness

Gothic and slyly comic, it's full of smart observations about sibling power struggles