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Other People's Children

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552997881

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 220g

  • RRP: £9.99

Other People's Children

For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie.
Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe Josie. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother, if she is peaceful and sane like Elizabeth. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur ...

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552997881

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 220g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • 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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About the Author

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List and CBE in 2019.

Joanna Trollope

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