By the author of The Rector's Wife and Second HoneymoonPublished as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide

'Trollope addresses the dilemmas of family and everyday life in a way both familiar and delightfully unexpected' Vogue 'Just as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel' Library Journal 'Trollope writes with such elegant precision - revelatory and ambiguous at just the right moments' Evening Standard 'Trollope aims for the heart, and she hits it' New Yorker

Author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuances and dilemmas of life in contemporary England, Joanna Trollope is also the author of a number of historical novels and of Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. In 1988 she wrote her first contemporary novel, The Choir, and this was followed by A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People's Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South, Brother and Sister and most recently Second Honeymoon. She lives in London and Oxford.