What the blurn on the back says...

"Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son, Jack: 'Your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an affair for seven year.'

'Grando?' marvels Jack. 'Grando wants out and to start again?' What can this mean to a boy in the throes of his first love affair? Or to Simon's wife Carrie who has always thought her wronged mother-in-law was one of the most self-pitying women she'd ever met anyway? Filial debts are about to be called in and Carrie doesn't want her husband Simon to pay them. Yet Simon feels a bond of obligation towards his mother which makes him vulnerable - and which no one else can fathom.

And what of the mistess - a barrister who has falled in love with a judge twice her age? What if she isn't just 'His Honour's totty', as one court official labels her. What if, as Simon's gay brother Alan decides, 'She's the real thing, She's a proper person.'

Joanne Trollope braves another emotional minefield with breathtaking agility in her irresistible new novel. She throws light into the recognisable but shadowy corners of human behaviour and comes away with a story and a drama that compel on every page."

What I thought of it...

Well, what can I say? I read the synopsis of this book and thought it sounded good. The idea for the book is good but the book definitely is not! It was utter rubbish. It whined on and on until I could stand it no more and stopped reading. The characters are dull and lifeless and what is portrayed of them is unbelievable and difficult to imagine. Throughout the book, whenever there's a dialogue, the characters are all interrupting each other so nothing makes much sense. This book, in my humble opinion is drivel, pure and simple It seems I am not alone in my thoughts. There are a few people on Amazon.co.uk who think like me. I will not be attemtping any more of Ms Trollope's books.