Joanna at her best. (Marrying the Mistress - Joanna Trollope)

Member Name: onlyinUk

Product:	Marrying the Mistress - Joanna Trollope
Date:	30/08/01 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Well Written, Deep and thought provoking.

Disadvantages: it was not long enough!!!

I brought Marrying The Mistress by Joanna Trollope,in paper back from Tesco's for the bargin price of £3.84, the book retails normanly at £6.99.

This book centres around the Stockdales and how they as a family deal with a pending divorce.

Guy Stockdale has beem married to his wife Laura for 40 years, and for the last 7 years of his marriage has been with another woman, Merrion.There is a vast age gap between them but Guy and Merrion have fallen in love and he makes up his mind to leave his wife.They have 2 grown up sons together, and their parting deeply affects their son Simon and his family. Laura the estranged wife has an emotional hold over Simon, which causes Simon and his immediate family a lot of heartache, as Simon has to struggle finding where his loyaltys should lay.

This book tells wonderfully of the complicated relationships in a family,Joanna Trollope has written it with a real sense of compassion, and all the characters play a profound part in the story.

This book does not have the ending you would probably like to see, but you will understand why.

This is Joanna Trollope at her best and If you have the chance to read this book, I urge you to as you will be captivated throughout.

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