![]() And as past and present intertwine, Kate is given the strength and inspiration to reforge her own life. ![]() As Kate unravels the dying woman's story she is amazed to discover how much it echoes her own. It belongs to a frail old lady, Agnes, and the two women become close friends. In the Dream House flies in the face of a common perception that. Then one evening, out walking, she stumbles upon the house of her dreams, a beautiful place, full of memories - but tantalizingly out of her reach. The book is groundbreakingwe would expect nothing less from the author of the outstanding 2017 short-story collection Her. Months later, with Simon still working all hours and the strains of living with his mother beginning to tell, Kate is questioning the wisdom of their move. Sacrificing her career, her friends and her independence, Kate battles to make a new life for the family under her mother-in-law's roof - while they search in vain for the perfect home. When everything starts to come apart at the seams they decide to uproot and move to the Suffolk coast. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is an all engrossing and harrowing memoir about one of Machado’s previous relationships. ![]() ![]() Kate Hutchinson and her husband Simon are Londoners, performing the balancing act of raising two young children in a cramped terraced house whilst holding down stressful full-time jobs. Now available in paperback, Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman. ![]()
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