Other People's Children - Softcover
For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His mother and father, Josie and Tom, have divorced amicably enough, and are set to pursue their separate paths. But other people have had to become involved - like Matthew, who has just married Josie, and Elizabeth, Tom's new friend. And even worse, there are the other children - Matthew's three resentful teenagers, who have been conditioned by their own mother Nadine to hate Josie. Rufus is supposed to regard them as family now, although he doesn't see why he should. Most of the time Matthew's children live with Nadine, in a slum-like cottage in the depths of the country. Nadine is determined that they should hate their new life as much as she does. They come to their father for weekends, and make it clear how much they loathe their new stepmother. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father in his quiet house in Bath, and realises that he does not necessarily hate the idea of a stepmother - not if she was like Elizabeth, sane and friendly and welcoming. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur.
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"This compelling, and at times heart-rending, novel is Trollope at her very best" (Ideal Home)
"A gripping read - as shrewdly observant of psychological and domestic detail as anything she has written" (Daily Telegraph)
"Wonderfully and compulsively readable... She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant" (Mail on Sunday)
"Trollope has shown herself capable of such emotional depth, that although you turn the pages quickly, it is with trembling fingers" (The Times)
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"A gripping read - as shrewdly observant of psychological and domestic detail as anything she has written" (Daily Telegraph)
"Wonderfully and compulsively readable... She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant" (Mail on Sunday)
"Trollope has shown herself capable of such emotional depth, that although you turn the pages quickly, it is with trembling fingers" (The Times)
A poignant story of marriage, divorce - and stepchildren.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0552998702
- ISBN 13 9780552998703
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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