- Hardcover: 332 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Airside ed edition (4 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747595933
- ISBN-13: 978-0747595939
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,889,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Joanna has held up a mirror to millions of women around the world, and they've seen themselves, their lives, their relationships and their desires staring back.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Trollope is a slick and stylish writer.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'She writes so beautifully in a style so graceful and judicious that you would call it restful if it were not also palpably intelligent.' EVENING STANDARD 'As subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte, Trollope's brilliant!' Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY --various
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'Joanna has held up a mirror to millions of women around the world, and they've seen themselves, their lives, their relationships and their desires staring back.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Trollope is a slick and stylish writer.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'She writes so beautifully ... in a style so graceful and judicious that you would call it restful if it were not also palpably intelligent.' EVENING STANDARD 'As subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte, Trollope's brilliant!' Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a fan of Joanna Trollope but this book is a huge disappointment. The characters remained one dimensional, were not at all credible or engaging. It was obvious that aspects of the book had been 'researched' to the hilt, but it lacked both plot and cohesion. Lazy writing from such an accomplished author.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a Joanna Trollope fan. I have always loved and enjoyed her work. For me, she was an author who could make me think while reading her novels, 'Hey, I've felt like that - these characters are REAL people'. I could hardly wait for this one to be offered for sale. But it's not good or enjoyable at all. The characters are vague and indistinguishable. I found myself flipping back through pages to find out which character was which. I couldn't somehow get interested in their stories and their problems and concerns seemed trivial. For the first time ever, I read a Joanna Trollope novel doggedly, just wanting to get to the end and hoping all the time it might somehow improve. It didn't.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How I wish I'd read Amazon readers' reviews of this novel before buying it. For weeks I've been forcing myself to 'give it another go' but time after time I've failed to become engrossed in the characters' lives. Such a disappointment from one of my favourite authors.
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The worst Trollope yet
I am a big fan of Trollope and I have read all of her books. I thought that this was nothing like her usual style and definitely not up to her usual excellent standard. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sarah H
a total disappointment
what a load of dribble, i had to double check that it was joanna trollope. there is no plot, just the ramblings of a writer
who has lost the plot.
who has lost the plot.
Published 13 months ago by Mrs K Atfield
Where was the plot?!?
I can safely say that this was the most awful book I have ever had the misfortune to spend my good money on!
The fundamental story was bizarre and unrealistic. Read more
The fundamental story was bizarre and unrealistic. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Marie
Rotten, rotten, rotten.
I didn't find this book dreadful from the get go as some other reviewers did. In fact I really got into it to the point where I stayed up to the early hours of the morning to... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Sally
Disappointing offering from Ms. Trollope - I'm surprised it was...
I've read lots of Joanna Trollope's novels and enjoyed them but I couldn't even finish this one - I read 100 pages and gave up [with 300 pages still to go, life is too short to... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ms. K. J. Waghorn
Friday nights
I enjoyed this book immensely. It was a nice easy read but had some substance to it. It was interesting to see how the different characters coped with their different lives but... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2010 by Mrs. Jennifer Gibson
Feeble
I agree with the other comments regarding 'researched to the hilt' etc. Very poor and surely would never have been published had it not been from JT. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2010 by Juneybug
Poor reading
I love Joanna Trollope but just COULD NOT get into this book. I wasn't interested in any of the characters and by about a third of the way through I gave up. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2010 by Ms. S. E. Kenyon
Terrible Trollope
The maxim write about what you know holds good for published writers as much as for the great unpublished masses. This novel wears its research extremely heavily. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2010 by Sallycinnamon
Wading through treacle.
My first [and probably my last]attempt at Joanna Trollope.
Read it for my book club - otherwise it would have been consigned to the 'charity shop' bag. Read more
Read it for my book club - otherwise it would have been consigned to the 'charity shop' bag. Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by S. Hardy
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