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 Séries
Cette série explore les complexités des relations et les dynamiques de pouvoir au sein de la vie familiale, se concentrant souvent sur les conflits générationnels et les retournements de situation inattendus. Elle suit des personnages naviguant crises personnelles, ambitions professionnelles et la quête du bonheur, explorant fréquemment l'impact d'écarts d'âge importants dans les partenariats. L'auteure dépeint avec sensibilité les émotions, examinant l'équilibre entre le désir de stabilité et le besoin d'épanouissement personnel.
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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
- 311pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years explores whathappens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.
Désaccords mineurs
- 402pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Chrissie a toujours su que Richie les aimait, elle et leurs trois filles, ainsi que leur joyeuse existence rythmée par la musique. Un seul bémol : Richie ne l'a jamais épousée, et pour cause, il n'a jamais divorcé de Margaret, la mère de son premier fils. Quand il meurt brutalement, tout bascule ; Margaret et son fils, qui figurent sur le testament, font une soudaine réapparition. Pour Chrissie et ses filles, tout se fissure irrémédiablement.