I absolutely loved it - the sense of place was so strong, the characters so delicious and the sense of fun perfect for countering these gloomy times. I hope it does really well... It took me back to the pleasure I had reading Love in the Time of Cholera.

Comic delight ... A quirky, bewitching novel brimming with great characters.

This is a charming, humorous and quirky tale about love, politics and the importance of holding on to your dreams. A delightful debut that will beguile fans of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Chocolat.

Plenty of charm in this effervescently sweet novel - perfect for reading in the bath.

A colourful and uplifting debut

Three controversial women become entwined through money, men and power. Prepare to be swept up in their drama in seconds

Three very different women, lashings of glamour and a story so smart and sexy you can almost hear the heavy breathing. This can only mean one thing. Jackie Collins, Tasmina Perry, Jo Rees. Ladies, meet Rupert - he'll be joining you on the gold-plated bench of bonkbuster brilliance.

It is glitzy, glamorous, page-turning stuff with bite

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