Author:Joanna Trollope
'One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now' Independent on Sunday
'The queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and emphatic' The Sunday Times
'A delight. Trollope is never less than graceful and searchingly observant' Independent
'A rare pleasure to find characters so likeable that one cares what becomes of them' Evening Standard
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AT FIRST THEIR AGES MADE NO DIFFERENCE...
Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency and Kate has lived with James, for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him, she's apparently devoted to him. Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed.
But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends of her own age and Julia's career begins to blossom just as her husband's starts to decline...
The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface.
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One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now
—— Independent on SundayThe queen of the domestic dilemma...observant and emphatic
—— The Sunday TimesA rare pleasure to find characters so likeable that one cares what becomes of them
—— Evening StandardA delight. Trollope is never less than graceful and searchingly observant
—— IndependentWholly enjoyable
—— The TimesVulliamy is the ideal foreign correspondent to analyse the phenomenon. He knows the border well and was one of the first to report on the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez. He also refuses to find easy answers to difficult questions. While some commentators have made glib assumptions about the Mexican propensity for brutality, Amexica shows that the crushing power of the multinationals in a low-wage economy is a key factor
—— IndependentEd Vulliamy provides a brilliant, rigorous analysis
—— IndependentWith a great sense of timing, Vulliamy now comes out with the most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands... The author has done a great deal of painstaking work in investigating and describing the blood-soaked frontier and the political cross-currants in both regions... it stands that this is a fascinating introduction to the bloody last act of the "war on drugs", which must surely soon pass unlamented into history
—— Hugh O'Shaughnessy , The Observer, New ReviewThis absorbing odyssey along the Mexican-American border gives pause for thought to anyone who ignores the side-effects of cocaine...Vulliamy's reporting is faultlessly brave ...the scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity'
—— Alex Spillius , Telegraph
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