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

Her finest novel yet - Sunday Times

A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I’ve read in years -- Rosamund Lupton

Bliss -- Nigella Lawson

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

What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I’d say -- Cathy Rentzenbrink

A gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance - Guardian, Books of the Year

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 - Gillian Anderson

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 - The Times, Book of the Year

A rare book, the kind you ration, one that grabs you by the heart and brain and pulls you right in -- Philippe Sands - Evening Standard

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 -- Catherine Taylor - Financial Times

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

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 - Sunday Times

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 - Sunday Times Magazine

A family story full of love and pain and insight - Herald, Books of the Year

Impeccably fine … A thoughtful, quietly profound book - i paper

The Dutch House offers … A simultaneous awareness of human fragility and human resilience - Daily Telegraph

As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life, rather than literature - Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

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 - i

Masterly - The Times

An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and entirely engrossing -- Eithne Farry - S Magazine

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

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 -- Jojo Moyes

Patchett is a master at pacing and detail … The question of what makes a home pervades this gripping book -- Erica Wagner - New Statesman

She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity -- Anthony Cummins - Metro

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

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

Engrossing … A captivating family saga about injustice and forgiveness - Daily Mirror

Gothic and slyly comic, it’s full of smart observations about sibling power struggles - Mail on Sunday

Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize. In 2002 she won the Orange Prize for Fiction with Bel Canto, a prize she has also twice been shortlisted for with The Magician’s Assistant in 1998 and 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.