..that's just a synopsis from Amazon because really that's all I know, I love his character portrayals and how he makes them 'funny' to the observer because really when you think about these things from an outsiders perspective and 'detached' they quite often do have humour, it's just not so easy to always see that when you're caught up in things and emotions etc...
Spoiler:
Two families. Seven days. One house.
Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks.
But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours.
Once again Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives
That sounds very intriguing Ammi, hope you enjoy reading it
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