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A sharp, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life.MEET THE MANVILLES.JERRY, a former award-winning adman who s beginning to leave a trail of ex-wives and semi-estranged children.PEN, his artist ex-wife, who s a lot more in love with her new garden in the South of France than with her new husband.ISOBEL, their daughter, trapped in air-conditioned Dubai, too busy managing her online farm to raise her own children.CONRAD, her brother, who tends to his bicycles and his latest crush from a grotty flat-share in East London.The House on the Hill was once their happy family home, regularly featured in the newspaper lifestyle sections and in Pen s popular children s books. But the house has fallen out of use, and so has the family. When Pen decides it s finally time to sell, Jerry discovers some unexpected new occupants who aren t so eager to move on. Soon the Manvilles each of them funny, flawed and sporadically lovable will have to say goodbye to The House on the Hill.