the captivating and heart-wrenching story of a marriage put to the test from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

The Soldier's Wife

Does marrying a soldier mean marrying the army? The topical new novel from this number one bestselling author.

Fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel by multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope which lays bare the snags and frustrations of family life and the dangerous pressure points in relationships. Guaranteed to keep you hooked... 
 
'Written with all Trollope's customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum' -- Daily Mail 
'The Soldier's Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true... compassionate, humourous and topical' - Spectator 
'Another great page turner from Joanna Trollope, one of her best' -- ***** Reader review 
'My only criticism - it was too short - I didn't want it to end!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'I couldn't put the book down!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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DOES MARRYING A SOLDIER ALWAYS HAVE TO MEAN YOU ARE NOT MARRYING A MAN, BUT A REGIMENT? 
 
The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and families will be heaven, after the hell they have been through. 
 
When Dan Riley returns to his adored wife, Alexa, and their children, his Army life still comes first. Alexa thought she was prepared to help him, and the whole family, to make the transition to normal life again - but no-one had told her how lonely and near impossible the task would be...

Written with all Trollope's customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum

Nobody understands the snags and frustrations of family life better than Joanna Trollope.  She also captures the dangerous pressure points in relationships, the steady build-up of tension, the exact moment when the family fur might really start to fly

Trollope is on top form, hitting the zeitgeist with this perceptive and compassionate inside story of an army marriage

The Soldier's Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true... compassionate, humourous and topical

Trollope is always immensely readable, managing to depict characters' inner turmoil with deft, artful simplicity.  Here, she brings her emotionally acute eye to bear on army life

With her stories about the tensions of middle-class families, Trollope consistently picks women's-page issues. In The Soldier's Wife, she continues to explore the power balance in relationships and whether it's possible to be happy if we subjugate our desires to someone else

As always, Joanna Trollope sucks you into the story; as always, she pins people's emotions with deft details.

Joanna Trollope is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. Born in Gloucestershire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List. 
 
Visit her website at www.joannatrollope.com

Ebook Bundle

Joanna Trollope: The Other Family & A Village Affair

Joanna Trollope is the number-one bestselling author of seventeen highly acclaimed contemporary novels. Awarded the OBE for services to literature, she has also written historical fiction and a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters. She lives in London. 
 
Visit her website at www.joannatrollope.com

This special 2-for-1 collection features two classic Joanna Trollope novels: The Other Family and A Village Affair. 
 
The Other Family: 
 
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? 
 
Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been married to his first wife, the one with a son that he had abandoned in Newcastle. 
 
And now, with Richie gone and the practicalities of wills and money to be sorted out, it is finally time for the two families to face each other ... 
 
A Village Affair: 
 
The Grey House is the answer to everything in Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage – a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something crucial is missing? 
 
As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village, opening up old wounds. But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour, understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself.

An enthralling, irresistible and beautifully moving novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors

Daughters-in-Law

Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman?

Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman? 
 
In this emotional and thought-provoking novel, multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly weaves a study of familial relationships with a lightness of tone and real sense of compassion. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love it! 
 
'Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve' - Guardian 
'Wonderfully observed and readable' - THE TIMES 
'Infallibly elegant...Look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dining table' - Daily Telegraph 
'I found it hard to put this book down' -- ***** Reader review 
'A brilliant book' -- ***** Reader review 
'Always an enjoyable read - Joanna Trollope is the mistress of family emotions' -- ***** Reader review 
'I read it last week and have started to re-read it immediately.' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW : THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 
 
When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? 
 
Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position. They have become more important to her boys than she is. 
 
A crisis brings these subtle rifts to the surface. 
 
Can there be a way forward, if they are to survive as a family?

We love Trollope's novels and await each new one with excitement

Supremely sure of her material and purpose, compassionate but never sentimental

Infallibly elegant... All this lies beneath the sparkling, well groomed surface of a novel which could quite easily be read as a light diversion for an idle afternoon. But look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dinner table

As ever, Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve

A poignant tale about a mother watching her children grow up and marry, and her sadness as they drift further away. Joanna's descriptive writing expresses true wrought emotion and hurt

The author's psychology, as always, is sound, the plotting secure and the pacing brisk and page-turning.  Another winner

Sociologically and psychologically as observant as ever

Book of the Month:  An intuitive and sympathetically observed piece of writing

Trollope writes with customary compassion and humanity in this heartwarming and engaging novel

A very superior work of women's fiction... an exceedingly skilled analysis of the relationship between different generations of women and how the power shifts as the old, as they must, get old and the young move on... it is a story told beautifully

The legendary Ms Trollope triumphs yet again, with her latest slick of classy chick-lit

This thoroughly engaging, intelligent, literate novel

The brilliantly observed portrayal of family life is wonderfully compelling - and a story many will be able to identify with. ****

an utterly compelling novel from bestselling author Joanna Trollope

The Other Family

A topical and utterly compelling contemporary novel from the number one bestselling author.

Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this absorbing, emotionally charged and beautifully written novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. Our lives are not always as rock-solid as we think... 
 
'Inventive, surprising and fascinating' - The Times 
'A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended' -- Sunday Express 
'Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction' -- Daily Telegraph 
'Fascinating' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely gripping' -- ***** Reader review 
'I could hardly bear to put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another unputdownable book from Joanna Trollope' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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SOME SECRETS ARE TOO BIG TO STAY HIDDEN... 
 
Chrissie had always believed that her husband Richie was the one. With their three daughters, a lovely house and a fulfilling career, things couldn't be much better. And even if he hadn't given her the one thing she really wanted, she knew he loved her. 
 
But suddenly Richie is no longer there and, without him, Chrissie's carefully constructed life comes tumbling down and the secrets start to come out. 
 
As the practicalities of Richie's will must be sorted out, Chrissie must tell her daughters of their father's other family, a wife and son he had abandoned years before and sworn never to see again. And now, it is finally time for the two families to face each other...

Trollope is brilliant at swooping in on a modern dilemma and showing it from every angle... Inventive, surprising and fascinating

She writes as observantly as ever. There are always those brilliant brief glimpses of some detail which ring wonderfully true

Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction

Trollope really knows and understands how people think and behave and she paints them realistically and with love... A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended

Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists

A rich, satisfying and - ultimately - uplifting read. It's the work of an author at the top of her game

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

Trollope is a barometer of modern middle-class mores, with a talent for pin-pointing the burning issues in supposedly ordinary lives

Joanna Trollope has many, enviable skills but perhaps her greatest is for identifying and illuminating the emotional truths of contemporary life

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill

Joanna Trollope is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling contemporary novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. She was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List. 
 
Visit her website at www.joannatrollope.com

an engrossing novel about female friendship – and its limits – from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

Friday Nights

Another superb novel from this number one bestselling author.

Fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will love this enthralling novel from the pen of multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. With her customary acute observation and expert characterisation, Trollope makes her readers not only identify with her characters but also become deeply attached to them. You will not be able to put this book down! 
 
'Trollope, as ever, can be relied upon to deliver a good read' -- Mail on Sunday 
'An entertaining novel' -- Independent on Sunday 
'Hits a right and ringing note and keeps hitting it' -- Independent 
'Excellent gripping to the end' -- ***** Reader review 
'This, for me, was a "can't put down" type of book!!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Best Trollope book I have read so far!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Pure pleasure' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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THEY WOULDN'T LET ANYTHING - OR ANYONE - GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP, WOULD THEY? 
 
Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. 
 
They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights. It was a time to share secrets and fears, triumphs and tragedies and, above all, to feel safe in the company of women friends. 
 
But things never stay the same forever, especially when a man is introduced into the mix...

Trollope, as ever, can be relied upon to deliver a good read

With her customary acute observation, Joanna Trollope examines different attitudes to work, relationships and children...In this engrossing novel, Trollope makes her readers not only identify with her characters but also become deeply attached to them

Hits a right and ringing note and keeps hitting it

Val Hennessy, Victoria Moore and Amber Pearson

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. 
 
Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List. 
 
Visit her website at www.joannatrollope.com

Fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will love this enthralling novel from the pen of multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. With her customary acute observation and expert characterisation, Trollope makes her readers not only identify with her characters but also become deeply attached to them. You will not be able to put this book down! 
 
'Trollope, as ever, can be relied upon to deliver a good read' -- Mail on Sunday 
'An entertaining novel' -- Independent on Sunday 
'Hits a right and ringing note and keeps hitting it' -- Independent 
'Excellent gripping to the end' -- ***** Reader review 
'This, for me, was a "can't put down" type of book!!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Best Trollope book I have read so far!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Pure pleasure' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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THEY WOULDN'T LET ANYTHING - OR ANYONE - GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP, WOULD THEY? 
 
Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. 
 
 They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights. It was a time to share secrets and fears, triumphs and tragedies and, above all, to feel safe in the company of women friends. 
 
But things never stay the same forever, especially when a man is introduced into the mix...

a deeply moving and insightful novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors

Brother & Sister

Her insightful, bestselling novel about who we are and where we come from.

'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate' Daily Mail 
'Brilliantly perceptive' Daily Telegraph 
'An important novel' Evening Standard 
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Will a journey into the past lose them more than they gain? 
 
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. 
 
Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered. 
 
But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ... 
 
This is an emotional and thought-provoking novel about who we are and where we come from is insightful and prescient, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
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Readers love Brother & Sister: 
 
'5 stars' 
'Kept me really interested all the way through' 
'Another Joanna Trollope winner' 
'Very entertaining and thought provoking'

Her prodigious flair for illuminating emotional situations guarantees the appeal of Trollope's work... immediate and engrossing

No one is better at observing and reporting changes in relationships and family dynamics than Joanna Trollope

an irresistible and gripping romantic drama from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trolloper

Marrying The Mistress

An irresistible novel from our number one bestselling author.

From the pen of multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope comes this wonderfully moving and thought - provoking novel, pitting matters of the heart and head against each other. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
 
'Particularly rich and satisfying' -- Mail on Sunday 
'Clever, clever, clever... probes right to the heart of a typically modern dilemma' -- Daily Mail 
'Brilliant' -- Spectator 
'A...riveting read' -- The Times 
'Absorbing. Loved it' -- ***** Reader review 
'Such an enjoyable read. Another Trollope masterpiece' -- ***** Reader review 
'I loved this book, it was difficult to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merrion have enjoyed a blissfully, uncomplicated relationship in stolen moments in Merrion's flat, and to the rest of the world, Guy has played the part of model husband, father and grandfather. 
 
 But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his relationship with Merrion with the world. 
 
He wants, dammit, to marry her. Yet he is quite unprepared for the storm that will follow ...

Clever, clever, clever... probes right to the heart of a typically modern dilemma

Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. 
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

a poignant story of marriage, divorce - and stepchildren from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

Other People's Children

A poignant story of marriage, divorce - and stepchildren.

Readers of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will love this wonderfully thought-provoking and moving novel of family dynamics from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. It really is Trollope at her very best. 
 
'A gripping read - as shrewdly observant of psychological and domestic detail as anything she has written' -- Daily Telegraph 
'Wonderfully and compulsively readable... She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant' -- Mail on Sunday 
'Trollope has shown herself capable of such emotional depth, that although you turn the pages quickly, it is with trembling fingers' -- The Times 
'One of the very best stories I've ever read' -- ***** Reader review 
'Superb' -- ***** Reader review 
'A compulsive read' -- ***** Reader review 
'I loved every moment of this book' -- ***** Reader review 
'Couldn't put it down...' -- ***** Reader review 
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TWO PEOPLE IN LOVE DON'T NECESSARILY MAKE A FAMILY 
 
For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. 
 
But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. 
 
Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe Josie. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother, if she is peaceful and sane like Elizabeth. 
 
But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur ...

This compelling, and at times heart-rending, novel is Trollope at her very best

A gripping read - as shrewdly observant of psychological and domestic detail as anything she has written

Wonderfully and compulsively readable... She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant

Trollope has shown herself capable of such emotional depth, that although you turn the pages quickly, it is with trembling fingers

a moving novel about loss and growth from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

Next Of Kin

A novel set in the midst of the farming community, with a family at a tragic crossroads.

Multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly depicts how grief can tip the family balance head over heels in this beautifully written novel about change and hope through adversity. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
 
'Extraordinarily powerful' -- Mail on Sunday 
'A devastatingly acute picture of a harsh rural world' -- The Sunday Times 
'Certainly one of her best' -- Daily Telegraph 
'A richly satisfying novel ... compulsively readable' -- Sunday Express 
'Kept me interested - twists and turns - great character development - well written' -- ***** Reader review 
'I couldn't put it down and finished the book in just a couple of days' -- ***** Reader review 
'Excellent' -- ***** Reader review 
'A wonderful book, a wonderful story, wonderful characters - a must have' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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A FAMILY IN CRISIS. A CATALYST THAT THREATENS TO CHANGE EVERYTHING... 
 
The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago, and the whole family feels her loss acutely, none more so than her adopted daughter Judy. 
 
Into this unhappy family comes Zoe, Judy's London friend, an outsider with an independent spirit and a disturbing directness. Everyone underestimates Zoe's power as a catalyst for change as the realities behind the seeming idyll of a rural community become ever clearer...

A devastatingly acute picture of a harsh rural world

A richly satisfying novel, sometimes dark, but compulsively readable, and imagined with a warmth that makes its determined realism oddly uplifting

Absorbing, uplifting and truly impressive

a poignant novel about friendships and betrayal from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

The Best Of Friends

A poignant novel about friendships and betrayal.

Let multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope draw you into this perceptive and prescient novel that will keep you gripped. She has a real skill in creating credible characters - and delving into our deepest thoughts and emotions. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse, this is a novel that will stay with you for a long time... 
 
'Trollope at her best' -- Spectator 
'Undeniably warmhearted and socially topical...above all a novel filled with good advice' -- Observer 
'Truly, I couldn't put it down. I'm telling you, Trollope is a significant chronicler' -- Daily Mail 
'Trollope has a keen ear for the yelps of distress, as lives are sliced in half by 
shabby betrayal... A book that is as enjoyable as it is thoughtful' -- The Times 
'An absorbing read' -- ***** Reader review 
'Great story, very touching but - a wonderful read' -- ***** Reader review 
'An excellent book which I couldn't put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Joanna Trollope never fails in her story telling' -- ***** Reader review 
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DOES 'FRIENDS' EVER REALLY MEAN JUST 'FRIENDS'? 
 
Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. Love has never been a factor. 
Now, Gina is married to the exquisitely tasteful Fergus and lives in stylish perfection in a huge house; Laurence is married to down-to-earth Hilary and lives in the Bee House, a home and hotel. 
 
When, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their teenage daughter, Gina's misery ricochets through the two homes and she turns for emotional support to Laurence, her dearest friend. 
 
And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction ...

Undeniably warmhearted and socially topical...above all a novel filled with good advice

Truly, I couldn't put it down. I'm telling you, Trollope is a significant chronicler

Trollope has a keen ear for the yelps of distress, as lives are sliced in half by shabby betrayal... A book that is as enjoyable as it is thoughtful

Trollope's bleakest and most satisfying work to date

At times funny, at others achingly sad, this book will cheer you and charm you

a compelling and engaging novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors, bestseller Joanna Trollope

A Spanish Lover

A story of delicate family relationships and the catalysts that can change everything ...

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this wise and warm novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. A story of delicate family relationships and the catalysts that can change everything... 
 
'Her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm' -- Observer 
'A hugely enjoyable book' -- The Sunday Times 
'I love her wit, her benevolence, her resolve that in even the darkest hour a little light will shine' -- Irish Press 
'Profoundly satisfying as well as acutely querying...A perceptive chronicler of our times' -- Sunday Express 
'Beautifully written' -- ***** Reader review 
Couldn't put this book down 100% excellent -- ***** Reader review 
'Incredible' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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TWO LIVES INTERTWINED AND SEEMINGLY HARMONIOUS. ONE DECISION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. 
 
Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything: husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house. She worries about Frances, who seems to lead a solitary life in London, ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to have a complete and satisfying life, just like hers. 
 
Then one day Frances announces she isn't coming to Lizzie's for Christmas as usual - she's going to Spain instead. 
Suddenly and equally unexpectedly, Lizzie's world begins to tilt. Frances's Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity. 
 
As Frances's future begins to change into something exciting and Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, long held assumptions are called into question. 
 
Which twin really is the one with everything?

Some people are beginning to measure out their lives in terms of the next Joanna Trollope... her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm

I love her wit, her benevolence, her resolve that in even the darkest hour a little light will shine

Wise and warm, profoundly satisfying as well as acutely querying...A perceptive chronicler of our times

Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. 
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this wise and warm novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. A story of delicate family relationships and the catalysts that can change everything... 
 
'Her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm' -- Observer 
'A hugely enjoyable book' -- The Sunday Times 
'I love her wit, her benevolence, her resolve that in even the darkest hour a little light will shine' -- Irish Press 
'Profoundly satisfying as well as acutely querying...A perceptive chronicler of our times' -- Sunday Express 
'Beautifully written' -- ***** Reader review 
Couldn't put this book down 100% excellent -- ***** Reader review 
'Incredible' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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TWO LIVES INTERTWINED AND SEEMINGLY HARMONIOUS. ONE DECISION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. 
 
Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything: husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house. She worries about Frances, who seems to lead a solitary life in London, ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to have a complete and satisfying life, just like hers. 
 
 Then one day Frances announces she isn't coming to Lizzie's for Christmas as usual - she's going to Spain instead. 
Suddenly and equally unexpectedly, Lizzie's world begins to tilt. Frances's Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity. 
 
 As Frances's future begins to change into something exciting and Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, long held assumptions are called into question. 
 
Which twin really is the one with everything?

a moving and thought-provoking novel from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

The Choir

A story of ecclesiastical politics and human dilemmas.

Lose yourself in this absorbing and touching novel about change and the challenge to accept it from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. Beautifully written with exquisitely drawn characters and demonstrating a superb ability to understand people and relationships, it is perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
 
'A beautifully drawn portrait of Cathedral life' -- Sunday Express 
'A modern Barchester Chronicle' -- Sunday Telegraph 
'Richly satisfying' -- Evening Standard 
'Another wonderful book, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Joanna Trollope never disappoints' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another tour de force by Trollope' -- ***** Reader review 
'One of those stories that stay with you' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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ONLY A MIRACLE CAN UNITE A CONGREGATION IN TURMOIL... 
 
In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. 
 
The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it means sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. 
 
Alexander Troy, Headmaster of the school, a conscientious man, is determined that nothing and no-one - certainly not the overbearing Dean - should destroy the Choir. 
 
As the rift widens to take on immense dimensions, many others find themselves caught in the schism - Leo Beckford, brilliant but wayward organist, repelling the adoration of the Dean's dreadful daughter; the gentle, left-wing Bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists; Sally Ashworth, mother of the leading chorister, fighting loneliness and an erring and absent husband... 
 
Each frail and human dilemma takes its part in the greater turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir.

A beautifully drawn portrait of Cathedral life

One of the most interesting writers to have emerged in the past few years

a gripping novel about love, friendship and discontent from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

The Men And The Girls

A gripping novel about love, friendship and discontent ...

Multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope's insight into human relationships is both unparalleled and fascinating - and in The Men and the Girls she presents an excellent array of characters who interact in a complex and intriguing dance. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will not be disappointed... 
 
'One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now' -- Independent on Sunday 
'The queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and emphatic' -- The Sunday Times 
'A rare pleasure to find characters so likeable that one cares what becomes of them' -- Evening Standard 
'A delight. Trollope is never less than graceful and searchingly observant' -- Independent 
'A great read' -- ***** Reader review 
'Easy to get lost in' -- ***** Reader review 
'Vastly entertaining' -- ***** Reader review 
'Cosy, subtle - a really lovely read!!' -- ***** Reader review 
'A page turner' -- ***** Reader review 
'Loved it from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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AT FIRST THEIR AGES MADE NO DIFFERENCE... 
 
Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency and Kate has lived with James, for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him, she's apparently devoted to him. Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed. 
 
But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends of her own age and Julia's career begins to blossom just as her husband's starts to decline ... 
 
The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface.

One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now

The queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and emphatic

A rare pleasure to find characters so likeable that one cares what becomes of them

A delight. Trollope is never less than graceful and searchingly observant

a moving and compelling novel of sacrifice and self-discovery from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

The Rector's Wife

A poignant story of lonliness, rebellion and love.

Joanna Trollope has the priceless gift of drawing characters so clearly, and cleanly, that within half a dozen pages, you feel you have known them all your life - and The Rector's Wife is no exception. A thought-provoking, emotionally-charged and, at times, wonderfully witty, read bringing to light the trials and tribulations of marriage - and the struggle when it doesn't give you what you need. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
 
'Elegantly written' -- The Sunday Times 
'Compulsive reading' -- The Times 
'Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer' -- Daily Mail 
'A wonderful read, just read it and enjoy' -- ***** Reader review 
'Just fabulous - what more can I say?' -- ***** Reader review 
'A must-read' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FIND YOUR OWN WAY 
 
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. 
 
When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. 
 
She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life...

The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written

I would have killed anyone who wrested this novel from my hands... it's compulsive reading

This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer

Like a Barbara Pym novel, though Joanna Trollope has a much stronger grasp than Pym on the tangled web of family life

Joanna Trollope has the priceless gift of drawing characters so clearly, and cleanly, that within half a dozen pages, you feel you have known them all your life - and The Rector's Wife is no exception. A thought-provoking, emotionally-charged and, at times, wonderfully witty, read bringing to light the trials and tribulations of marriage - and the struggle when it doesn't give you what you need. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. 
 
'Elegantly written' -- The Sunday Times 
'Compulsive reading' -- The Times 
'Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer' -- Daily Mail 
'A wonderful read, just read it and enjoy' -- ***** Reader review 
'Just fabulous - what more can I say?' -- ***** Reader review 
'A must-read' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FIND YOUR OWN WAY 
 
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. 
 
 When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. 
 
 She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life...

another masterful and insightful novel shining a light on the relationships of ordinary people and their ordinary lives from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

A Passionate Man

An unputdownable novel about fathers and sons, sex and love, loyalties and identities and fear of failure ...

Demonstrates again how good Joanna Trollope is at describing village life and how sure is her touch

An elegant, witty and deeply perceptive book

Bubbly, amusing, touching, and ultimately poignant

'An elegant, witty and deeply perceptive book' Woman's Journal 
'Bubbly, amusing, touching, and ultimately poignant' Sunday Express 
'Demonstrates again how good Joanna Trollope is at describing village life and how sure is her touch' Evening Standard 
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ONE ENCOUNTER AND LIFE IS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN... 
 
The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. 
 
Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. 
 
When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone - except Archie - adored at once. 
 
Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life - a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world. 
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Readers love A Passionate Man: 
 
'Captivating' 
'Brilliant' 
'Her writing is, for me, perfection' 
'One of her best I think' 
'I didn't want it to finish!'

an elegantly warm-hearted and, at times, wry story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

A Village Affair

A stylish, warm, sometimes comical, sometimes loving story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair.

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel about love and marriage - and the ties that bind us - from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. With the flawless depiction of rural, middle-class life and her incredibly astute characterisation, she effortlessly demonstrates how seductive and cosy the apparent safety of money, conformity and marriage can be - but also how fragile.... 
 
'A story of seduction - not only sexual seduction but the irresistible appeal of money, beautiful objects, charming manners...excellent' - The Sunday Times 
'A richly textured and immensely readable novel' - The Sunday Times 
'Could not put this book down' - ***** Reader review 
'A must read' - ***** Reader review 
'An outstanding study of human relationships and conflicting loyalties' - ***** Reader review 
 
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WOULD YOU TAKE A CHANCE AND SET SOMETHING IN MOTION THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING? 
 
The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? 
 
As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life, the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village and opening up old wounds. 
 
But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour and understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself.

An elegantly crafted dissection of English rural life among the well-heeled and privileged...A considerable achievement

A story of seduction - not only sexual seduction but the irresistible appeal of money, beautiful objects, charming manners...excellent

A richly textured and immensely readable novel

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel about love and marriage - and the ties that bind us - from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. With the flawless depiction of rural, middle-class life and her incredibly astute characterisation, she effortlessly demonstrates how seductive and cosy the apparent safety of money, conformity and marriage can be - but also how fragile.... 
 
'A story of seduction - not only sexual seduction but the irresistible appeal of money, beautiful objects, charming manners...excellent' - The Sunday Times 
'A richly textured and immensely readable novel' - The Sunday Times 
'Could not put this book down' - ***** Reader review 
'A must read' - ***** Reader review 
'An outstanding study of human relationships and conflicting loyalties' - ***** Reader review 
 
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WOULD YOU TAKE A CHANCE AND SET SOMETHING IN MOTION THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING? 
 
The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? 
 
As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life, the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village and opening up old wounds. 
 
But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour and understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself.

a compelling novel about the changing rules and requirements of modern affairs of the heart from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

Girl From The South

'A novel about the changing rules and requirements of modern affairs of the heart' Daily Mail

Multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope's sharp eye for family relationships and the intricacies of being human will appeal to readers of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse. Full of her customary wit and wonderfully sharp characterisation, Girl from the South is an enthralling novel you won't be able to put down. 
 
'She writes so beautifully...' -- Evening Standard 
'Joanna Trollope is a wonderful novelist of domestic detail... Girl From the South is, like all her books, a really good read, spiked with insight' -- Observer 
'Finely-observed family tensions' -- Sunday Mirror 
'At the heart of Trollope's tightly written, acutely observed novel is what it means to be a family' -- New Statesman 
'Couldn't stop reading it' -- ***** Reader review 
'[I] was really sorry to get to the end of it' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absorbing. Loved it' -- ***** Reader review 
'A must read' -- ***** Reader review 
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CAN LONG-TERM HOPES AND DREAMS HOLD FAST IN THE FACE OF AN EXOTIC WIND OF CHANGE? 
 
Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit. 
 
Before long Gillon has moved into their flat, replacing Henry's old mate William, William's on-off-girlfriend Susie, and a lots of mess and disorganisation. Things are changing, and Tilly finds it difficult to accept that her dreams of settling down with Henry are receding further into the distance, especially when Henry announces that he is going to South Carolina to photograph the abundant wildlife of the area. 
 
There, Henry is wholly seduced by the charms of Charleston, by Gillon's family, and by the old patrician way of life which presents itself. The rules seem to be changing, the time passing by, and the future is becoming less and less certain...

She writes so beautifully... in a style so graceful and judicious that you would call it restful if it were not also palpably intelligent

Joanna Trollope is a wonderful novelist of domestic detail... Girl From the South is, like all her books, a really good read, spiked with insight

At the heart of Trollope's tightly written, acutely observed novel is what it means to be a family

This is a novel about the modern affairs of the heart. It explores the dilemmas of men who won't commit themselves and women who yearn for sublime romantic love

[Trollope writes] with such elegant precision - revelatory and ambiguous at just the right moments

A cruelly funny book... most astute observation

an absorbing and authentic novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors

Second Honeymoon

When the last of your children has flown the nest, will there be time for a second honeymoon?

This heart-warming and uplifting novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. It's a story of relationships in which everybody can find something to identify with, and even learn from. Perfect to settle down with! 
 
'The queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and empathetic' - The Sunday Times 
'The ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled' - The Observer 
'One of the finest chroniclers of how we live now' - Independent on Sunday 
'A highly readable, often un-put-down-able novel which I thoroughly enjoyed.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Excellent, engaging novel. Like having a warm blanket around your shoulders!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Trollope at her best again' -- ***** Reader review 
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SECOND HONEYMOON: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 
 
When the children have come and gone, can a marriage pick up where it left off? 
 
Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. 
His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. 
His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. 
His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. 
And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. 
 
Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.

The author's witty manipulation of her characters recalls the other Trollope, although there is nothing Victorian about her style... perfectly pitched dialogue

Trollope has perfectly caught the angst of the empty nest... the ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled

The queen of the domestic dilemma... observant and empathetic

Trollope has always written well and convincingly about property.  It's her refusal to divorce her characters' inner lives from the accumulated stuff of their outer ones that makes the best of it so compelling

Joanna Trollope has an uncanny knack of pinpointing key modern domestic dilemmas around which to thicken her absorbing plots

Poignant prose... her novels have always contained the unexpected, but lately they've gained a grittiness which suits the everyday subject matter that lies at the heart of her writing

Intelligent and humane, and there's never a word out of place

Beautifully written, and her treatment of the generation gap between parents and offspring is observed with all the unforced empathy that has become her hallmark

A compulsively readable tragi-comedy of empty nest syndrome... never a dull moment

A must-read for empty nesters ... this is Trollope at her most poignant

Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. In 1988 she wrote her first contemporary novel, The Choir, and this was followed by A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People's Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South and, most recently, Brother &amp; Sister. 
 
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire and lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

Women of the British Empire

Britannia's Daughters

A gripping and fascinating account of the role of women in founding the British Empire.

Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable

Lively and well written... she has built up a convincing and moving picture of the role of women in creating the Empire, and in keeping the show on the road

Trollope uses superb sepia photographs to summon up the great Victorian heroines... who sought in the colonies, and sometimes found, adventure, butterflies, Christian souls or husbands

Illustrates contemporary Victorian attitudes to women vividly... and reminds us of how restricted daily life was for a Victorian lady at home and how squalid and hopeless for the poor... A conscientious and broad-ranging survey

Handsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended

An inspiring survey of the women, humble or aristocratic, who helped to make and maintain the British Empire... Their multifarious history makes proud reading

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. 
 
Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List and CBE in 2019.

In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada and Africa - often in search of opportunities unavailable at home. 
 
Here are penniless pioneers and governors' wives, missionaries and prostitutes, explorers and army nurses. They people this book as they peopled the Empire - their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.

Joanna Trollope

Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy, and the outcomes of this terrific novel are always believable as they are surprising.  To be relished.

Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face. In Balancing Act, she has done it again.

Joanna Trollope, whose evocations of human relationships are as ever penetrating and engaging.

With her compassion for her characters, Trollope cuts to the quick of family life, and the difference between men and women.  I loved it.

Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope.

Trollope...remains painfully skilled in tracing the faultlines in human relationships.

a hugely readable novel…Trollope writes with unflagging skill. She is brilliant at exploring the often unearned sense of entitlement within families

Family and business, husbands and wives, parents and children. It's always a balancing act... In this emotional and thought-provoking novel, multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly weaves a study of familial relationships with a lightness of tone and real sense of compassion. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will not be disappointed. 
 
'To be relished.' -- The Times 
'Joanna Trollope's evocations of human relationships are, as ever, penetrating and engaging.' -- Daily Express 
'A joy to read' -- ***** Reader review 
'A great read, very engrossing and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review 
'Sublime' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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WHEN EVERYTHING YOU'VE WORKED TO ACHIEVE SUDDENLY FEELS PRECARIOUS, YOU'LL DO WHAT IT TAKES TO KEEP IT STABLE... 
 
Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men - and the children - in their lives? 
 
Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back - the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they had children. And those children don't see their mother's business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve. 
 
And then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. The problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work. Which relationships - if any - will survive?

Joanna Trollope

Praise for Balancing Act

Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy, and the outcomes of this terrific novel are always believable as they are surprising. To be relished.

Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face. In Balancing Act, she ha ...

Joanna Trollope, whose evocations of human relationships are as ever penetrating and engaging.

Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy, and the outcomes of this terrific novel are always believable as they are surprising. To be relished.

Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face. In Balancing Act, she ha ...

Joanna Trollope, whose evocations of human relationships are as ever penetrating and engaging.

Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy, and the outcomes of this terrific novel are always believable as they are surprising. To be relished.

Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face. In Balancing Act, she ha ...

Joanna Trollope, whose evocations of human relationships are as ever penetrating and engaging.

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