A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the
Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every
facet of life: the possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife
Sylvia, and their three children.In the fifty years that follow, the
possibilities narrow. Sylvia’s untimely death marks her family
indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul’s perfect marriage
yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an
unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness
requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age
less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife,
Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor.This
extraordinarily moving and beautifully crafted first novel was a
number one bestseller in Canada where it won one of the country’s
most prestigious literary awards, the Giller Prize, in 1999.
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