Marrying the Mistress

By Joanna Trollope
(Viking Adult, Hardcover, 9780670891504, 293pp.)

Publication Date: June 2000

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (June 2001), Audio Cassette (November 2000), Compact Disc (October 2000), Audio Cassette - Abridged (June 2000)

Categories: General

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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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