After his mother's death, Richard - a senior doctor at a hospital - decides to contact his sister Angela after many years of disconnection, and invites her and her family to a vacation home for a weekOn the Welsh border. Seven days of shared meals, sitting by the burning fireplace, card games and walks in the rain.
But even in the peace of the valley the ghosts begin to raise their heads. The parents they had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviors. And watching over all of this - from her place on the dim hill above the house - is Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter.
The Red House deals with extraordinary moments in everyday life and weaves the words and thoughts of the heroes, of the dead who once inhabited the rooms of this house, of the ancient house itself and of the landscape within which it resides.
