Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope

Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope

Just as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel. --Library Journal (starred review)

A pleasure to read. --The Washington Post

Despite its title, Marrying the Mistress is no mere sexy romp detailing the lurid details of a juicy affair. Instead, Joanna Trollope offers a domestic drama that gives us an insider's view of what happens to a family when the respected head of the household--60-year-old judge Guy Stockdale--announces he is leaving his wife of 40 years to marry his much younger mistress, Merrion. From his teenage grandson who thinks it's cool that Gramps can still snag a hot young babe to his feisty daughter-in-law who sets up a secret meeting to check out the Other Woman, this is a nuanced tale that manages to be both familiar and surprising. What makes the situation complex--and the book beach-bag worthy--is that Merrion is far from the stereotypical villain/slut/husband stealer. She is intelligent, independent, successful and impossible not to like. Reading Marrying the Mistress is like spying on the neighbors that everyone on the street is gossiping about--without the guilt. --Salon.com

A modern-day Austen. --Library Journal (starred review)

Masterful storyelling and memorable characters...a wise and gently truthful take on a highly charged subject. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

This novel should easily vault onto the bestseller lists. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Marrying the Mistress] must be the popular British writer's most daring novel, as well as one of her most interesting...bracing and original...Trollope at her most challenging and thought-provoking. --The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Entertaining...great beach reading. --USA Today

A novel rich in accurate, piercing detail of domestic life and populated with strongly developed, realistic characters...absorbing and excellent. --Booklist

Splendidly nuanced. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A great beach or vacation read. --The Baltimore Sun

Trollope again displays her extraordinary gift for representing the intricacies of familial relationships and the vicissitudes of domestic life...None of the themes here--betrayal and anger, the lovers' age difference, the grasping mother, the daughter-in-law's resentment--are terribly unusual, but Trollope's proven ability to present them intelligently, as moral and emotional tangles faced by thinking, interesting people, satisfyingly combines the universally recognizable and the intellectually engaging. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Essential. --Library Journal (starred review)

Joanna Trollope is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters in Law. She was appointed OBE in 1996, and a trustee of the National Literacy Trust in 2012. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes; she has been part of two DCMS panels on public libraries and is patron of numerous charities, including Meningitis Now, and Chawton House Library. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in the Austen Project.

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ISBN 13	9780670891504
ISBN 10	0670891509
Title	Marrying the Mistress
Author	Joanna Trollope
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	2000-06-05
Number of pages	293
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