Carriage House The

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'You've disappointed me. You had all the potential in the world . . .'

For thirty years William Adair has lived by two indisputable certainties - his daughters' exceptional talents and the enduring importance of his grandfather's carriage house. Now, as he recovers from a stroke, he sees that both have failed him: the carriage house is falling down, while his daughters - divorced Elizabeth, university dropout Diana and sorrowful Isabelle - have returned home. To help William recover, his daughters embark on a campaign to save the carriage house and in so doing seek to rekindle, or banish for ever, their lost hopes and dreams.

'Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, only populated by characters from a Jane Austen novel . . . to rival the likes of John Cheever and Richard Yates.' Sunday Express

'Echoes of Jane Austen . . . Hall unpeels the relationships . . . with superb truthfulness and accuracy.' The Times

'Every sentence is full of clarity, attention, and grace.' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

'Transformative . . . a perfect book club choice, this is a novel to read from cover to cover in one day . . . a novel about being a disappointment both to yourself and your family, and how we can change our previously held identities to realise our potential.' Psychologies Magazine