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Chrissie always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the twenty-three years they'd been together, loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? The ring she wore was not a wedding ring, and it did not bring her the security of marriage. That belonged, still, to Margaret, back in Newcastle where Richie had started off as a musician, before he became famous. Margaret and her son Scott never saw Richie, and had never met the three girls. They were his other family, not mentioned but always in Chrissie's mind, an obstacle to her complete happiness.
And then, suddenly and shockingly, Richie is no longer there, and Chrissie and the girls have to learn to manage without him. The presence of the other family becomes, all at once, impossible to ignore - not least because they are involved in Richie's will. Old resentments, and feelings of abandonment and loss, have to jostle with the practicalities of money and property...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A sensitive and entertaining novel. . . . Once again with The Other Family, Trollope delves into ordinary life and reveals its uniqueness and humanity." -- "The Vancouver Sun" "May just be Trollope's best work yet." -- "The Chronicle-Herald" " " "She writes as observantly as ever. There are always those brilliant brief glimpses of some detail which ring wonderfully true and pinpoint a person or a place exactly." -- Susan Hill, "Spectator" "Trollope is a diligent researcher and a thorough technician - two admirable qualities in a novelist. She understands how the framework of fiction should be made, and her novels are excellent as a result. . . . A satisfying, well-constructed novel." -- "Daily Telegraph" "Tro
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0385616155
- ISBN 13 9780385616157
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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