Brother & Sister
This is an emotional and thought-provoking novel about who we are and where we come from by multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope Insightful and prescient, it is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse.
'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate' -- Daily Mail
'Brilliantly perceptive' -- Daily Telegraph
'An important novel' -- Evening Standard
'Kept me really interested all the way through' -- ***** Reader review
'Another Joanna Trollope winner' -- ***** Reader review
'Very entertaining and thought provoking' -- ***** Reader review
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WILL A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST LOSE THEM MORE THAN THEY GAIN?
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister.
Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered.
But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...
'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate' -- Daily Mail
'Brilliantly perceptive' -- Daily Telegraph
'An important novel' -- Evening Standard
'Kept me really interested all the way through' -- ***** Reader review
'Another Joanna Trollope winner' -- ***** Reader review
'Very entertaining and thought provoking' -- ***** Reader review
***************************************************************************************************
WILL A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST LOSE THEM MORE THAN THEY GAIN?
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister.
Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered.
But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...
FictionFamily LifeSiblings
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERBlack Swan
LENGTH368
LANGUAGEEN
Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Brother & Sister
This is an emotional and thought-provoking novel about who we are and where we come from by multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope Insightful and prescient, it is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse.
'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate' -- Daily Mail
'Brilliantly perceptive' -- Daily Telegraph
'An important novel' -- Evening Standard
'Kept me really interested all the way through' -- ***** Reader review
'Another Joanna Trollope winner' -- ***** Reader review
'Very entertaining and thought provoking' -- ***** Reader review
***************************************************************************************************
WILL A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST LOSE THEM MORE THAN THEY GAIN?
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister.
Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered.
But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...
'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate' -- Daily Mail
'Brilliantly perceptive' -- Daily Telegraph
'An important novel' -- Evening Standard
'Kept me really interested all the way through' -- ***** Reader review
'Another Joanna Trollope winner' -- ***** Reader review
'Very entertaining and thought provoking' -- ***** Reader review
***************************************************************************************************
WILL A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST LOSE THEM MORE THAN THEY GAIN?
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister.
Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered.
But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...
FictionFamily LifeSiblings
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERBlack Swan
LENGTH368
LANGUAGEEN
Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
