Second Honeymoon: A Novel - Hardcover

Trollope, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596910380 ISBN 13: 9781596910386

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2006

Synopsis

Joanna Trollope’s most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years, Second Honeymoon explores what happens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.

Ben Boyd is leaving home. At twenty-two, he’s the youngest of the family and the last to leave. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. Ben’s brother, Matthew, is wrestling with a relationship in which he earns less than his successful girlfriend. Their sister Rosa is wrestling with debt, and the end of a turbulent love affair. Living on your own, it seems, may not be as glamorous as it’s cracked up to be. Rosa is the first of the Boyd children to think she may have to move back in with her parents—just until she can make ends meet again.

This is the empty nest, twenty-first-century style—with grown children coming and going just as parents are getting ready for their second honeymoon. With characteristic grace and humor, Trollope weaves multiple stories of two generations struggling with love, careers, and parenthood into a riveting family drama.

About this title

Review:

"The author's witty manipulation of her characters recalls the other Trollope, although there is nothing Victorian about her style... perfectly pitched dialogue" (The Times)

"One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now" (Independent on Sunday)

"Trollope has perfectly caught the angst of the empty nest... the ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled" (The Observer)

"The queen of the domestic dilemma... observant and empathetic" (The Sunday Times)

"Trollope has always written well and convincingly about property. It's her refusal to divorce her characters' inner lives from the accumulated stuff of their outer ones that makes the best of it so compelling" (The Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

When the last of your children has flown the nest, will there be time for a second honeymoon?

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596910380
• ISBN 13: 9781596910386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 323