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The Other Family: A Novel

1 rating: 5.0

A book by Joanna Trollope

An unexpected line in a will leads to complications and new beginnings in Trollope's eminently readable latest (afterFriday Nights). The novel opens outside London with the sudden death of Richie Rossiter, a once-popular pianist whose star has been on … see full wiki

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Author: Joanna Trollope

Publisher: Touchstone

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Excellent story about a family coping with loss on many levels

Dec 23, 2010

by quinncx
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

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This novel is another stellar work by Trollope, who does so well delving into the heart of love and family. This book opens with a family returning home from the hospital incomplete, the head of the household now nothing but a memory. As the story unfolds, we learn more and more about him and his actions in the past and the impact those actions continue to have on his two separate families. As both his abandoned widow and the woman he left her for try to cope with his death, his four children are left struggling to understand what his loss means to them.

Wonderfully drawn characters and exquisite emotional tension make this book impossible to put down. An excellent winter read- 5 strong stars!

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