The Other Family, By Joanna Trollope
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Your support makes all the difference.Joanna Trollope's new novel addresses a very contemporary problem – what happens when death fails to take into account the complex living arrangements of modern life.
Highgate-based mother of three, Chrissie Kelsey, finds herself struggling financially when her long-time partner, Richie, a successful lyricist, dies of a heart attack.
To make matters worse, he's left his grand piano and the rights to his early hits to his first wife, Margaret, and their grown-up son, Scott.
Moving between London and Newcastle, Trollope explores the fall-out of one man's administrative oversight on the lives of two women and and their progeny.
Naturalistic conversation and clued-up observation make this elegantly framed litany of familial woes a consoling read.
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