The Wrong House

by Carol Wallace

Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate.

Genres: Fiction

311 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1994

About the author

Carol Wallace, the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, is the author most recently of a new version of "Ben-Hur." It is the official tie-in of the new major film, releasing in August of 2016.

Carol is also the co-author of "To Marry an English Lord," which was one of the inspirations for "Downton Abbey," and author of the historical novel
"Leaving Van Gogh." Previous titles have included humor, parenting, and social history. In 2006 Wallace received a M.A. in art history from Columbia University. The research for her M.A. thesis provided the foundation for "Leaving van Gogh." A 1977 graduate of Princeton University, Wallace lives in New York.

Reviews

[Diane Wachter · Rating 2 out of 5]

RDC-M, V 4, 1994, @ 1994, Read 2/13. Fiction. A retired couple buy the wrong house. She is outraged, and he is determined to make the best of it until the end of the summer. Unbelievable, 2☆'s = Okay.

[Rita Chapman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting title and a nice light read.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was in a Reader's Digest Condensed book my friend gave me. This was a nice story to read by the pool.

[Neville · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a bad story. It shows how a couple can have different ideas about what they want and this shows in the story. Hart Drummond is quite happy with his new house but his wife, Frances does not like it. Another story to fill in time.

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read more work by this author.

[Gary Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book.

[Bill Donhiser · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my Genre it is an okay story.A couple with very different ideas of retirement enjoyable but not memorable

[Phil Hait · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my style of book, but I was stuck without much else to read. Mildly entertaining.