Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Hay on Wye where the book is set is Tref y llyfrau which means Town of Books no less!! Home of the Wye book festival, this is THE place for a bookish adventure
The Red House
What you need to know before your trail
Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. 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.
Just what will happen inside that red house?
Travel Guide
The Red House it would seem is a nice house nestled away in the Welsh countryside and for one week this house is going to be the scene of a whole lot of family dramas. Resentment between a brother and a sister. There may be no call for a Tolstoy reference in a book like this but this phrase of his could well be a description of this one:
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
The baggage in the hall is certainly of the emotional variety. Awkward conversations, strained moments, and a menagerie of animals and children to contend with.
We think the characters should get out of the house and spend more time in the town of Hay especially when the book festival is on. Come on people one of the biggest and best book festivals ever is literarily up your street!
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