The Other Family
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  • Published: 3 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552775434
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.99

The Other Family

an utterly compelling novel from bestselling author Joanna Trollope

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1 Jul 2010
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3 Jan 2011
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A topical and utterly compelling contemporary novel from the number one bestselling author.

Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this absorbing, emotionally charged and beautifully written novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. Our lives are not always as rock-solid as we think...

'Inventive, surprising and fascinating' - The Times
'A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended' -- Sunday Express
'Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction' -- Daily Telegraph
'Fascinating' -- ***** Reader review
'Absolutely gripping' -- ***** Reader review
'I could hardly bear to put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'Another unputdownable book from Joanna Trollope' -- ***** Reader review

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SOME SECRETS ARE TOO BIG TO STAY HIDDEN...

Chrissie had always believed that her husband Richie was the one. With their three daughters, a lovely house and a fulfilling career, things couldn't be much better. And even if he hadn't given her the one thing she really wanted, she knew he loved her.

But suddenly Richie is no longer there and, without him, Chrissie's carefully constructed life comes tumbling down and the secrets start to come out.

As the practicalities of Richie's will must be sorted out, Chrissie must tell her daughters of their father's other family, a wife and son he had abandoned years before and sworn never to see again. And now, it is finally time for the two families to face each other...
  • Published: 3 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552775434
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • 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 The Other Family

Clever and thoughtful

Tatler

She writes as observantly as ever. There are always those brilliant brief glimpses of some detail which ring wonderfully true

The Spectator

Highly involving, deeply humane

Evening Standard

A rich, satisfying and - ultimately - uplifting read. It's the work of an author at the top of her game

City A.M.

Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction

Daily Telegraph

A pleasure

Sunday Times

Trollope is brilliant at swooping in on a modern dilemma and showing it from every angle... Inventive, surprising and fascinating

The Times

Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists

Amanda Craig, Independent

An absorbing read

Grazia

Beautifully crafted

Mirror

Trollope really knows and understands how people think and behave and she paints them realistically and with love... A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended

Sunday Express

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

Bella

Dark and brilliantly absorbing

Heat

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

Sunday

An absorbing read

Culture Magazine

Trollope is a barometer of modern middle-class mores, with a talent for pin-pointing the burning issues in supposedly ordinary lives

Saga Magazine

Joanna Trollope has many, enviable skills but perhaps her greatest is for identifying and illuminating the emotional truths of contemporary life

Literary Review

Well drawn and convincing

Mail on Sunday

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

Daily Express

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill

Evening Standard

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

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