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The Red House
Family holidays: the perfect recipe for awkward silences, old grudges bubbling up, and everyone pretending everything’s fine. Mark Haddon’s “The Red House” throws eight people—two families with messy histories—into a week-long Welsh countryside getaway. Spoiler: it’s not a beach resort romance. It’s a slow-burning, painfully honest look at what happens when you can’t just fake your way through family anymore.
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