THE RED HOUSE.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around photographic blue+white Chinoise porcelain motif'ed illustrated dw/dj,with capitalised red lettered title and author's name to front of dw/dj and a red circular adhesive label with white lettering advertising Haddon as author of 'The Curious Incident etc.'. ; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as the front's,plus publishers thumbnail b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of photographic illustration. Negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/toned are bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original red paper-covered(?) boards with a bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt house motif centrally placed to upper board,bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate red+white artwork by Rachel Sim, illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-264pp [paginated] includes 8 sections/chapters covering a Friday to Friday week; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page,a dedication,sections/chapters individual separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear. After his mother's death,Richard,a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border.Four adults and four children,a single family and all of them strangers.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.And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill,Karen,Angela's stillborn daughter. 'The Red House' is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary,weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter,stranger voices - of books and letters and music,of the dead who once inhabited these rooms,of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon,bestselling author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' (see my book ID rja12007 ) and 'A Spot of Bother' (see my book ID rja365212),has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **