Marrying the mistress / Joanna Trollope

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking , 2000.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 293 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670891504
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC TRO
LOC classification:
  • PR6070.R57 M37 2000
Summary: What happens when the respected head of a family -- an English County Court Judge in this case -- announces he is leaving his wife of forty years to marry his mistress? How do his grown up sons feel? How do his grandchildren react? And what extra layers are added to the dilemma when the mistress in question turns out not to be piece of dismissable fluff, but a young woman of spirit and accomplishment who is -- to their universal dismay -- immensely likeable? In her new novel, Joanna Trollope looks at the way men in a family interact across the generations, at the problems of mothers who cannot bear not to come first with their sons forever; at family dynamics where teenagers can sometimes see more clearly than their parents and, above all, what happens when freedom to choose brings consequences that no one ever thought of...
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FIC TRI The shoemaker's wife : a novel / FIC TRI Very Valentine : a novel / FIC TRO The warden FIC TRO Marrying the mistress FIC TRO Rachel Ray / by Anthony Trollope FIC TRO Other people's children FIC TRO The rector's wife

What happens when the respected head of a family -- an English County Court Judge in this case -- announces he is leaving his wife of forty years to marry his mistress? How do his grown up sons feel? How do his grandchildren react? And what extra layers are added to the dilemma when the mistress in question turns out not to be piece of dismissable fluff, but a young woman of spirit and accomplishment who is -- to their universal dismay -- immensely likeable? In her new novel, Joanna Trollope looks at the way men in a family interact across the generations, at the problems of mothers who cannot bear not to come first with their sons forever; at family dynamics where teenagers can sometimes see more clearly than their parents and, above all, what happens when freedom to choose brings consequences that no one ever thought of...

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