Summer House with Swimming Pool

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner.

Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous.

When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can't refuse. But by the time the suntans fade, Ralph Meier is dead.

The medical board accuses Marc of negligence.

Ralph's wife, however, accuses him of murder...



Herman Koch, born in 1953, is a Dutch writer. He was a renowned television actor on the series

Jiskefet and a former columnist for the newspaper

Volkskrant. His novel

The Dinner won the prestigious Publieksprijs Prize in 2009 and went on to be a huge international bestseller.

Summer House with Swimming Pool is his seventh novel. He currently lives in Amsterdam.



Horribly thrilling, utterly entertaining



Gripping... The summer's essential reading



Take this book to the beach, you'll be gripped and chilled



Gripping... Koch uses language like a stethoscope, so that we can hear the beating hearts of his characters and their visceral feelings of envy, love, fear and hatred



Sex and menace are at the pulsating heart of this emotionally intelligent thriller



Caustic...Poisonous... I couldn't stop reading



You'll wonder how far you would go for your children, and again you'll wonder what you might be capable of once the rules have been broken... Viciously funny, tense, and disturbing, this is one holiday you won't forget.