The twentieth stunning book from the lauded bestselling author, Joanna Trollope.

When Gillon comes back to her native Charleston, she has a young Englishman in tow. He has accompanied her on a lark, planning to take pictures. The twentieth stunning book from the lauded bestselling author, Joanna Trollope. An extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence" Sunday Times "She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant" Mail on Sunday. The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life.

Second Honeymoon book. Now that her third and last child has left the nest, Edie Boyd's. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem.

After a twelve-year stint as a teacher she turned her hand to writing historical romantic novels, beginning with Eliza Stanhope, published in 1978 under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.

The young man in the box office, who had clearly been surprised to find Ruth waiting when he opened up, said that there were better seats in the centre of the back, for the same price. She had put on a black. She had put on a black canvas bucket hat and sunglasses, and thought, glancing unhappily in the mirror as she left the flat, that she looked like a Japanese tourist. I’m sure they’re better, but the side is where I’d like to sit, please’. The young man sighed, and slid the ticket towards her.

There were single trainers on shelves, mugs and cereal bowls on the floor, scatterings of papers and books everywhere.

Chapter One. Edie put her hand out, took a breath and slowly, slowly pushed open his bedroom door. The room inside looked as if he had never left it. The bed was unmade, the curtains half drawn, the carpet almost invisible under trails of clothing. There were single trainers on shelves, mugs and cereal bowls on the floor, scatterings of papers and books everywhere.

Her new novel, Second Honeymoon, centres around another very familiar life crisis - she could as easily have called it "Empty Nest"

Her new novel, Second Honeymoon, centres around another very familiar life crisis - she could as easily have called it "Empty Nest". It opens with a distraught mother in the wreckage of her son's bedroom. Her youngest child has left home, and taken her whole identity with him.

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Joanna Trollope CBE (/ˈtrɒləp/; born 9 December 1943) is an English writer. She has also written under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. 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.