The Other Family

The Other Family

by JoannaTrollope (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 446
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: Dec 2010

ISBN 10: 0552775444
ISBN 13: 9780552775441
Book Overview: A topical and utterly compelling contemporary novel from the number one bestselling author.

Media Reviews
Trollope is brilliant at swooping in on a modern dilemma and showing it from every angle...Inventive, surprising and fascinating The Times She writes as observantly as ever. There are always those brilliant brief glimpses of some detail which ring wonderfully true The Spectator Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction Daily Telegraph Highly involving, deeply humane. Evening Standard Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists -- Amanda Craig Independent
Author Bio
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