Other People's Children: a poignant story of marriage, divorce - and stepchildren from one of Britain’s...

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Joanna Trollope

Other People's Children

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

Joanna Trollope

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Black Swan
02 April 1999

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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' --
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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 ...

By: Joanna Trollope
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 221g
ISBN: 9780552997881
ISBN 10: 0552997889
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 April 1999
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Other People's Children: a poignant story of marriage, divorce - and stepchildren from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

This novel explores the myths and realities of a fairly new but increasing phenomenon: multiple families - second and third spouses and their assorted children; step-parents, step-siblings (even step-pets), and the people (not always blameless) they leave behind. A strongly written study of a social evolution already leaving scars - and prognosticating lifelong neuroses. (Kirkus UK)