Balancing Act
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  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552778558
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99

Balancing Act

an absorbing and authentic novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors

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27 Feb 2014
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27 Feb 2014
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2 Feb 2015
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Family and business, husbands and wives, parents and children
It's always a balancing act...

Family and business, husbands and wives, parents and children. It's always a balancing act... In this emotional and thought-provoking novel, multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly weaves a study of familial relationships with a lightness of tone and real sense of compassion. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will not be disappointed.

'To be relished.' -- The Times
'Joanna Trollope's evocations of human relationships are, as ever, penetrating and engaging.' -- Daily Express
'A joy to read' -- ***** Reader review
'A great read, very engrossing and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Sublime' -- ***** Reader review

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WHEN EVERYTHING YOU'VE WORKED TO ACHIEVE SUDDENLY FEELS PRECARIOUS, YOU'LL DO WHAT IT TAKES TO KEEP IT STABLE...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men - and the children - in their lives?

Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back - the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they had children. And those children don't see their mother's business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve.

And then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. The problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work. Which relationships - if any - will survive?
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552778558
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels.

Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List and CBE in 2019.

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Praise for Balancing Act

Joanna Trollope, whose evocations of human relationships are as ever penetrating and engaging.

Daily Express

With her compassion for her characters, Trollope cuts to the quick of family life, and the difference between men and women. I loved it.

Fanny Blake, Woman & Home, Jan 14

Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face. In Balancing Act, she has done it again.

Sunday Times

Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy, and the outcomes of this terrific novel are always believable as they are surprising. To be relished.

The Times

Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope.

Good Housekeeping

A tour de force of family dynamics.

Sunday Express

Trollope...remains painfully skilled in tracing the faultlines in human relationships.

Daily Telegraph

a hugely readable novel…Trollope writes with unflagging skill. She is brilliant at exploring the often unearned sense of entitlement within families

Observer

A glorious family saga.

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