Next of Kin

Next of Kin

by JoannaTrollope (Author)

Synopsis

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..

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Jun 1997

ISBN 10: 0552997005
ISBN 13: 9780552997003
Book Overview: A novel set in the midst of the farming community, with a family at a tragic crossroads.

Media Reviews
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, sometimes dark, but compulsively readable, and imagined with a warmth that makes its determined realism oddly uplifting * Sunday Express *
Her fine, gripping and unflinching novel * The Times *
Author Bio
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.