睽違多年，《深夜小狗神秘習題》作者馬克‧海登透視複雜人性力作！
　　梅開二度的醫院顧問Richard在母親過世後，打定主意要修復與姊姊Angela的關係，便邀請Angela一家人到山上共度一週。四個大人、四個小孩，浩浩蕩蕩地出發，對即將發生的事完全沒有心理準備。
　　八個人在七天內形影不離地一起烤肉、玩牌、散步，在一棟古老、魅影幢幢的屋子裡，各自與老屋的鬼魂住客們打交道。隨著相處的時間越長，過去日常生活裡隱忍不發的矛盾、委屈、憤怒等情緒找不到出口，衝突便輪番地爆發，各人隱藏的秘密也一個接一個地被揭開，不論願不願意，所有人都已經無法忽視生命裡美好與醜陋並存的事實。
　　寧靜山谷間的老屋就像是一座舞台，個性鮮明的八位主角在不斷的彼此磨合下，似乎也漸漸確立了自己的角色定位，或是，更明白了「家人」的真諦。（文/博客來編譯）
　　Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother’s death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela’s stillborn daughter.
　　”The Red House” is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon, bestselling author of ”The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” and ”A Spot of Bother”, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.