Brother and Sister - Hardcover

Trollope, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747572828 ISBN 13: 9780747572824

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Synopsis

We all need to know where we come from, where we belong. But for David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people, because they are adopted. Brought up by the same parents, but born to different mothers, they have grown up, fiercely loyal to one another, as brother and sister. Their decision, in their late thirties, to embark upon the journey to find their birth mothers, is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their partners, the people they work with and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago, and who have since then made other lives, even borne other children. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity, Joanna Trollope once again works her magic. In this rich narrative, at once gritty and graceful, she exposes the extraordinary challenges that arise at the heart of ordinary lives.

About this title

Review:

"Pacy, absorbing and compassionate" (Daily Mail)

"Brilliantly perceptive" (Daily Telegraph)

"An important novel" (Evening Standard)

"Her prodigious flair for illuminating emotional situations guarantees the appeal of Trollope's work... immediate and engrossing" (The Good Book Guide)

"Deliciously readable" (The Times)

Book Description:

Her insightful, bestselling novel about who we are and where we come from.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0747572828
• ISBN 13: 9780747572824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320