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There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026 The lawsuit was later dismissed; by then, Lowell was in Anápolis, Brazil, living with a New York ship captain named Leek Bowen in an eleven-room country house.—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026 The actor, however, never imagined that their primary residence would be a country house in France.—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025 The show is set in 1925 and, in true Christie fashion, sees a country house party prank turn deadly.—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country house