Daughters-in-Law
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  • Published: 2 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448110322
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Daughters-in-Law

An enthralling, irresistible and beautifully moving novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors

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2 Aug 2011
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1 Mar 2011
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12 Apr 2011
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3 Mar 2011
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1 Jan 2012
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Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman?

Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman?
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 love it!
'Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve' - Guardian
'Wonderfully observed and readable' - THE TIMES
'Infallibly elegant...Look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dining table' - Daily Telegraph
'I found it hard to put this book down' -- ***** Reader review
'A brilliant book' -- ***** Reader review
'Always an enjoyable read - Joanna Trollope is the mistress of family emotions' -- ***** Reader review
'I read it last week and have started to re-read it immediately.' -- ***** Reader review

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DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW : THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up?

Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position. They have become more important to her boys than she is.

A crisis brings these subtle rifts to the surface.

Can there be a way forward, if they are to survive as a family?
  • Published: 2 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448110322
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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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 Daughters-in-Law

A poignant tale about a mother watching her children grow up and marry, and her sadness as they drift further away. Joanna's descriptive writing expresses true wrought emotion and hurt

HEAT REVIEW

A very superior work of women's fiction... an exceedingly skilled analysis of the relationship between different generations of women and how the power shifts as the old, as they must, get old and the young move on... it is a story told beautifully

SUNDAY EXPRESS

As ever, Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve

GUARDIAN

Book of the Month: An intuitive and sympathetically observed piece of writing

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Infallibly elegant... All this lies beneath the sparkling, well groomed surface of a novel which could quite easily be read as a light diversion for an idle afternoon. But look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dinner table

Jane Shilling, DAILY TELEGRAPH

Sociologically and psychologically as observant as ever

SPECTATOR

Supremely sure of her material and purpose, compassionate but never sentimental

THE SUNDAY TIMES

The author's psychology, as always, is sound, the plotting secure and the pacing brisk and page-turning. Another winner

DAILY MAIL

The brilliantly observed portrayal of family life is wonderfully compelling - and a story many will be able to identify with. ****

CLOSER

The legendary Ms Trollope triumphs yet again, with her latest slick of classy chick-lit

HEAT

This thoroughly engaging, intelligent, literate novel

WASHINGTON POST

Trollope writes with customary compassion and humanity in this heartwarming and engaging novel

DAILY EXPRESS

We love Trollope's novels and await each new one with excitement

HEAT

Wonderfully observed and readable

THE TIMES