by Mark Haddon · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266257596
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«Vacances à l'anglaise» is the novel by Mark Haddon published by Pocket in 2015 in paperback (345 pages, in French).
After years of estrangement, Richard invites his sister Angela to spend a week's holiday in Wales to try to reconcile. Living together becomes a delicate standoff: four adults carrying old grudges, three teenagers and a child who barely know each other share an isolated house under constant rain and with no phone signal. A comedy of manners about family relationships and their contradictions.
The original novel, The Red House, was published in 2012; this French edition is translated by Odile Demange.
Aimed at readers of Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and at those seeking comedies about family life.
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
