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  • Published: 1 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773119
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

Second Honeymoon

an absorbing and authentic novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors




When the last of your children has flown the nest, will there be time for a second honeymoon?

This heart-warming and uplifting novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. It's a story of relationships in which everybody can find something to identify with, and even learn from. Perfect to settle down with!
'The queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and empathetic' - The Sunday Times
'The ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled' - The Observer
'One of the finest chroniclers of how we live now' - Independent on Sunday
'A highly readable, often un-put-down-able novel which I thoroughly enjoyed.' -- ***** Reader review
'Excellent, engaging novel. Like having a warm blanket around your shoulders!' -- ***** Reader review
'Trollope at her best again' -- ***** Reader review
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SECOND HONEYMOON: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

When the children have come and gone, can a marriage pick up where it left off?

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family.
His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught.
His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back.
His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend.
And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair.

Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.

  • Published: 1 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773119
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

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.

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Praise for Second Honeymoon

The author's witty manipulation of her characters recalls the other Trollope, although there is nothing Victorian about her style... perfectly pitched dialogue

The Times

A feisty read you won't want to put down

Woman

Poignant prose... her novels have always contained the unexpected, but lately they've gained a grittiness which suits the everyday subject matter that lies at the heart of her writing

Glamour

One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now

Independent on Sunday

Trollope has perfectly caught the angst of the empty nest... the ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled

The Observer

The queen of the domestic dilemma... observant and empathetic

The Sunday Times

Trollope has always written well and convincingly about property. It's her refusal to divorce her characters' inner lives from the accumulated stuff of their outer ones that makes the best of it so compelling

The Daily Telegraph

Playful, unguessable and clever

Sunday Express

Joanna Trollope has an uncanny knack of pinpointing key modern domestic dilemmas around which to thicken her absorbing plots

Daily Mail

Intelligent and humane, and there's never a word out of place

Evening Standard

A must-read for empty nesters ... this is Trollope at her most poignant

Guernsey Now

Beautifully written, and her treatment of the generation gap between parents and offspring is observed with all the unforced empathy that has become her hallmark

Observer

A compulsively readable tragi-comedy of empty nest syndrome... never a dull moment

Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph