Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective

She writes as observantly as ever. There are always those brilliant brief glimpses of some detail which ring wonderfully true

Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction

Trollope really knows and understands how people think and behave and she paints them realistically and with love... A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended

Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists

Clever and thoughtful

A rich, satisfying and - ultimately - uplifting read. It's the work of an author at the top of her game

A pleasure

Highly involving, deeply humane

An absorbing read

Beautifully crafted

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

Dark and brilliantly absorbing

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

Trollope is a barometer of modern middle-class mores, with a talent for pin-pointing the burning issues in supposedly ordinary lives

Joanna Trollope has many, enviable skills but perhaps her greatest is for identifying and illuminating the emotional truths of contemporary life

Well drawn and convincing

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill