Second Honeymoon

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

Katie Owen, Sunday Telegraph

A feisty read you won't want to put down

Woman

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

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

Evening Standard

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

Daily Mail

One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now

Independent on Sunday

Playful, unguessable and clever

Sunday Express

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

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

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

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

The Observer