Julia and Kate have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. That is until the appearance of elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor, who sets off a chain of events in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge.
Joanna Trollope Series
This series delves into the complexities of relationships and power dynamics within family life, often focusing on generational clashes and unexpected life turns. It follows characters navigating personal crises, professional ambitions, and the pursuit of happiness, frequently exploring the impact of significant age gaps in partnerships. The author sensitively portrays emotions, examining the balance between the desire for stability and the need for personal fulfillment.
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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.
Marrying the Mistress
- 311 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son Jack; your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an affair for seven years. What can this mean to Jack in the throes of his first love affair? Or to Simon's wife, Carrie: And what of the mistress - a barrister who has fallen in love with a judge twice her age?
This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.
Second Honeymoon
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years explores whathappens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.
Richie had been a celebrated musician, wealthy, popular, and adored by Chrissie and their three daughters. But when he dies, without warning, Chrissie has to deal not only with her grief but with the knowledge that her beloved Richie had another family, one which he had deserted many years before but which now needs to be involved. And their involvement extends not only to the immediate aftermath of a sudden death, but to the longer-term and much more difficult issue - who will inherit his legacy? Chrissie and her girls, comfortably off in London, or Margaret, the deserted wife, living in the North East with Richie's only son? This is an intriguing and timely novel about inheritance, and what happens in a tangled family when someone dies.