This series delves into the complexities of relationships and power dynamics within family life, often focusing on generational clashes and unexpected life turns. It follows characters navigating personal crises, professional ambitions, and the pursuit of happiness, frequently exploring the impact of significant age gaps in partnerships. The author sensitively portrays emotions, examining the balance between the desire for stability and the need for personal fulfillment.
Julia and Kate have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. That is until the appearance of elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor, who sets off a chain of events in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge.
The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life-three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate, --they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone--except Archie--adored at once. Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life--a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world.
This sixth edition has seen this well-established text the subject of reorganisation. The insistence on the study of the law of the European Union in its wider social and economic context has been maintained and much should remain familiar to the regular reader.
This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.
Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years explores whathappens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all.