Ann Patchett: The Dutch House author

The US novelist Ann Patchett received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Bel Canto. She's also writes non-fiction and the latest of her eight novels, The Dutch House, was released last year. It revolves around siblings Danny and Maeve's obsession with their family home, after they are dispossessed of it by their (wicked?) stepmother. Patchett is currently locked down in Tennessee, and is keeping the independent bookshop she co-owns in Nashville operating through these turbulent times.