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Joanna Trollope (Author)
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Publication Date: 29 Jan 2005

Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister.

Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered.

But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan; New Ed edition (29 Jan 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0552771732
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552771733
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 244,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 )

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Her insightful, bestselling novel about who we are and where we come from.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good story but unrealistic dialogue. Disappointing. 9 Feb 2005
By SueBee
Format:Paperback
I have read all Joanna Trollope's books and must admit I prefer her earlier ones. This one has a good story premise (adopted siblings look for their real mothers) but what lets it down is the dialogue. People just don't talk to each other like that - in the stilted, soul-searching, pseudo psychologist style she uses. Also the characters do not seem as developed as in her earlier works. For instance, we are never told what Natalie (female main character) has done for work or trained for so you cannot 'draw' her character in your mind as you might in other circumstances - did she go straight from home to husband? Other minor roles are undeveloped too and all talk in this curious middle England vocabulary as used by a mid 1950's BBC newsreader!. Disappointing but I felt compelled to finish it nonetheless.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Alright but far too predictable 12 July 2007
By Janie U VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
I have read all of Joanna Trollope's books and from being really great they are gradually getting boring and predictable. It uses the same formula for writing a book which has been used over and over again.
Admittedly I was pulled into the story from the first page and stuck with the book until the end but I thought that this subject matter has been done too many times and Joanne Trollope doesn't seem to be able to find anything new in it. She seems to be trying to be edgy by using a difficult subject but, in doing that, she moves away to far from the aga sagas that she is good at writing without managing to tackle the adoption issue.
There was some very sloppy parts to the book, for example when the 2 mothers are introduced within a couple of pages of each other - they are complete extremes of people with completely extreme reasons for having their adoptions - hhmm!!
The ending of the book was also too dramatic and seemed to destroy any sensitivity it had achieved in the first half.
It is not an awful book but I would recommend a new reader to Joanna Trollope starts with her earlier books - let's hope the next one is better!
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "The abandoned baby lives inside each adoptee." 17 Oct 2005
By Mary Whipple HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
In this tension-filled domestic drama, Joanna Trollope shows how the adoption of two children, now adults, have affected all the families involved--the birth mothers and their later families, the adoptive parents and grandparents, and the adoptees themselves, their spouses, and their children. Nathalie, the partner of Steve Ross and mother of their child, has always considered it an advantage to be adopted, to be "chosen," but when her young daughter Polly needs surgery for a condition that may be inherited, her own adoption becomes an issue for her. Asking "What else don't I know about where Polly's come from?" she suddenly comes to a life-changing realization: "I want to be like people who know where they come from." She and her brother David decide to search for their birth mothers.

The rippling effects of the decision to search for birth mothers dominate this carefully constructed novel. Nathalie's adoptive mother, not surprisingly, is devastated that both of "her" children need to find "other" mothers. The birth mothers, by turn, have created new lives of their own, each dealing with her "lost" child in her own way. Nathalie's husband, David's wife, and their children are also affected, not least by the fact that Nathalie and David choose to share their feelings with each other, rather than with their spouses. As the ripple effects continue, other characters, even including employees, are drawn into the emotional vortex, and unexpected complications send the action in surprising directions with new twists and turns.

Trollope reveals the inner lives of her characters through beautifully realized dialogue, and she pays particular attention to the details of personality and domestic relationships.... Read more ›

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst novel I've ever wasted time on 14 April 2008
By Specialknamaste
Format:Paperback
I was interested to read this because my brother is adopted and went through his own journey with this...but this book simply reeks. Why did I even finish it, I can't answer. I didn't care about the characters at all, their reactions are completely unrealistic and they are all portrayed in different shades of immature. I was hoping to learn something but was disappointed. Don't waste your time on this one.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Nidnight 16 Dec 2009
By E. Smith
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A very unsatisfying read....a rare failure from this author.
There were just too many characters, too many issues and not enough story! Did we really need to know the lives of the office staff, too? the characters in the families were more than sufficient. The staff of the office could have been the basis of a book by themselves.
None of the storylines felt resolved or even credible, and the dialogue was very stilted.
The basis of the book was good and topical, but for so many lives to be included, they needed to be more fully developed. I did not have much sympathy for most of them and too soon lost patience with Nathalie.

However, I am sure the next will be back to her usual high standard
Nidnight
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Indiiferent 13 Aug 2008
By Hel S
Format:Paperback
Like others have said, the characters were so under-developed in this book that they didn't come across as real, complete people. The book was a peculiar read, some parts of it were eminently readable yet others were like wading through sludge. I cringed at the dialogue of the children especially.

One of the children has a medical problem which facilitates her mother's search for her blood mother. It is hinted that the child's father has a similar problem but other than two rather clunky references this is not pursued in any way at all, so it reads like a very much planned plot point which, once its duty is done, can be discarded.

The two birth mothers themselves were so opposite that they seemed like caracatures instead of people. There was effort made to paint them as real but I think because the author made them so very extreme, they couldn't help but come across as unrealistic also.

I thought the ending, especially David's, to be totally bizarre. I can see that now he and his sister have faced up to their past that they might not be as needful of each other as they once were, but again I think the failing is that the characters were so poorly drawn that their actions can't make sense because we just don't know who they are.

This is not a book for anyone new to Trollope. It was an okay read, but my mind wasn't on it, and I have no particular feelings one way or another.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Notnthe best Joanna but.....
Not finished it yet but so far so good. It is not as gripping as some of her others though.
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I wonder how many of the other people reviewing this book are adopted? I was adopted as a baby of 5 weeks old. Read more
Published 5 months ago by H J PHILLIPS
3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of the best from Joanna.
The topic of this book was very interesting but was not as well developed as most of her other novels which I have always enjoyed hugely.
Published 11 months ago by Nelson
1.0 out of 5 stars non event
This is only the second Joanna Trollope I have read. Sadly it will be the last. Started with promise. Adopted brother and sister deciding to search for their birth mothers. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars An insight into the emotions of adoptions
This book explores the complex emotions of adoptees and their immediate families. It shows great insight into the psychology of adoption - has the author had experience in this... Read more
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An excellently researched book highlighting many of the previously unrecognised problems that could so easily affect so many people involved in the adoption process apart from the... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2010 by Critical old me
4.0 out of 5 stars Emotionally Honest Insight into Adoption
True to form, Joanna Trollope shines her torch into all the hidden corners of the mind and emotions, as her characters face their individual and shared challenges in the novel... Read more
Published on 17 July 2010 by Jenna
4.0 out of 5 stars The dilemnas surrounding adoption explored well
I was adopted at a young age and so found this book a rare reading experience. I think it explores successfully the insecurities surrounding some adoptive people and their families... Read more
Published on 16 May 2010 by Alison Mallaghan
4.0 out of 5 stars My first experience
This is my first Joanna Trollope book and will definitely not be my last. I enjoyed reading this book about two children adopted from different families into the same family unit. Read more
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