Ann Patchett

Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper.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’ GuardianNominated for the Women’s Prize 2020A 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.In the economic boom following the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's real estate investments take his family from poverty to enormous wealth. With it he buys the Dutch House, a lavish mansion in the Philadelphia suburbs. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.Danny Conroy grows up in the opulence of the Dutch House. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. The siblings grow and change as life plays out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners, in the frames of their oil paintings.Then one day their father brings home Andrea, a new stepmother. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve’s lives: exiled from the house and tossed back into the poverty from which their family rose, Danny and Maeve have only each other to count on.‘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

From the New York Times bestselling duo of award-winning author Ann Patchett and Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser comes an empathetic story about introverts and extroverts, and two siblings who learn to be themselves.The Vert family is celebrating a very special occasion: it’s Ivan’s birthday! And Estie knows that every birthday needs a great party, with lots of guests, party hats, and twinkling tin foil stars. Because that is what everyone wants on their birthday, right? But did Estie ever ask Ivan? From the New York Times bestselling duo of Escape Goat and Lambslide, award-winning author Ann Patchett and Fancy Nancy artist Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a heartfelt story about honoring our differences.

As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and community. With the help of his niece, Katie Seigenthaler, and his colleague, Amy Frogge, Strobel began to dictate The Kingdom of the Poor. He wrote, “Mark Twain, the great American folk hero and writer, has said, ‘The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.’ The following pages help to explain why I was born.” The “why” of Charlie Strobel’s life, which was devoted to helping those without support systems and homes to call their own, was a simple belief that we are all poor and we are all worthy of love.The Kingdom of the Poor is the story of the people and experiences that led him to this understanding and inspired him to live his life accordingly.

The Times 50 best paperbacks of 2024The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett – a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller‘Filled with the moments I live for in a story’BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry‘[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships’REESE WITHERSPOON‘One of the most beloved authors of her generation’SUNDAY TIMESThere's more to every love story than what we choose to tell...It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.‘One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage … Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers’ ELLE* SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *

The astonishing new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth

Novyj roman amerikanskoj pisatelnitsy Enn Petchett napominaet skazku bratev Grimm, razrosshujusja do masshtabov semejnogo eposa. Istorija glavnykh geroev, Denni Konroja i ego sestry Mejv, okhvatyvaet vsju vtoruju polovinu KHKh veka, a ikh sudby okazyvajutsja rokovym obrazom perepleteny s Gollandskim domom - osobnjakom na vostoke Pensilvanii, kogda-to prinadlezhavshim razorivshejsja dinastii niderlandskikh magnatov Vankhubejkov. Sam po sebe Gollandskij dom ne naselen prizrakami, no kazhdyj, kto perestupaet ego porog, v kakom-to smysle stanovitsja prizrakom doma - kuda by on potom ni otpravilsja, gde by vposledstvii ni zhil, povsjudu nosit s soboj etot obraz.U Denni i Mejv tolko eto i est: bezvremenno ushedshij iz zhizni otets, davnym-davno prevrativshajasja v vospominanie mat, budto by vyshedshaja iz nochnogo koshmara machekha i zloveschij familnyj osobnjak. A takzhe vzroslaja zhizn, kotoraja vse nikak ne nachnetsja: prokljatie detstva, pechat sirotstva, nevozmozhnost razorvat odnazhdy sformirovavshiesja uzy. "Gollandskij dom" - istorija o pobede ljubvi nad zlom. Pobede, zameshennoj na poterjakh i vo mnogom neochevidnoj, potomu chto v konechnom schete chitatelju predstoit razobratsja samomu, na chej on storone i byl li zdes zlodej. I esli byl - to kto?Perevodchik: Kumysh Sergej Vladislavovich

The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett – a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller ‘Filled with the moments I live for in a story’ BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry ‘[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships’ REESE WITHERSPOON ‘One of the most beloved authors of her generation’ SUNDAY TIMES There's more to every love story than what we choose to tell... It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. ‘One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage … Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers’ ELLE * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *

A New York Times Notable BookAcclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as "beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion" (Boston Herald)St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth's extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls. Rose's past won't be kept away, though, even by St. Elizabeth's; she cannot remain untouched by what she has left behind, even as she cannot change who she has become in the leaving.

A New York Times Notable Book"As resonant as a blues song. . . . Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."--New York Times Book ReviewAn ex-jazz drummer wants nothing more than to be a good father in this moving family novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Dutch House.When John Nickel's lover takes away his son, Nickel is left only with his Beale Street bar in Memphis. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl's dead father--Taft--obsessing over and reconstructing the life of a man he never met.A stunning artistic achievement, Taft confirms Ann Patchett's standing as one of the most gifted writers of her generation and reminds us of our deepest instincts to protect the people we love.

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician's death becomes the catalyst for his partner's journey of self-discovery in this "enchanting" book (San Francisco Chronicle) "that is something of a magic trick in itself." (Newsweek)When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine--who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years--learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the journey she takes, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her.Sabine's extraordinary tale, "with its big dreams, vast spaces, and disparate realities lying side by side" captures the hearts of its readers and "proves to be the perfect place for miraculous transformations." (The New Yorker)

Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success, and what it all means. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: essays that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Ranging from the personal - her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; unexpectedly falling into a life-changing friendship with Tom Hanks; how to answer when someone asks why you don't have children - to the sublime - exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History before its doors open; the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting - each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew. Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.

En stemningsmættet og gribende fortælling om båndet mellem to søskende, deres barndomshjem og en fortid, der ikke vil slippe dem. Efter 2. verdenskrig opbygger Cyril Conroy et ejendomsimperium og løfter sin familie fra fattigdom til rigdom. Han køber det hollandske hus, en overdådig ejendom udenfor Philadelphia. Ment som en overraskelse til sin hustru bringer huset ulykke over familien, og alle dem, Cyril elsker, begynder at gå i opløsning. Historien fortælles af Cyrils søn Danny, som, sammen med sin skarpt iagttagende søster Maeve, bliver sendt i eksil fra deres barndomshjem af deres stedmor. De to velhavende søskende bliver kastet tilbage til den fattigdom, deres forældre var sluppet fri af, og de finder ud af, at de kun har hinanden at stole på. Det hollandske hus er et mørkt eventyr om to intelligente mennesker, der ikke kan slippe fri af deres fortid. Trods alle ydre tegn på succes er Danny og Maeve kun rigtigt trygge, når de er sammen. Gennem hele livet vender de tilbage til historien om, hvad de mistede, men da de til sidst bliver tvunget til at konfrontere de mennesker, der svigtede dem, bliver forholdet mellem bror og søster udsat for sin ultimative test.