Second Honeymoon

Description

Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first century style

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. His brother, Matthew, is wrestling with a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister Rosa is wrestling with debt, and the end of a turbulent love affair.
First published 2006.

Promotion info

Another compelling family drama from Joanna Trollope, this time set in London Massive national advertising campaign Major media coverage and nationwide tour

Reviews

'As subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant!' Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'She writes so beautifully ... in a style so graceful and judicious that you would call it restful if it were not also palpably intelligent' EVENING STANDARD

Author description

Author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuances and dilemmas of life in contemporary England, Joanna Trollope is also the author of a number of historical novels and of Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. In 1988 she wrote her first contemporary novel, The Choir, and this was followed by A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People's Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South and most recently Brother and Sister. She lives in Gloucestershire.