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The Other Family
Nov 28, 2025 7:47 AM

Author:Joanna Trollope

The Other Family

Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse will love this absorbing, emotionally charged and beautifully written novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope. Our lives are not always as rock-solid as we think...

'Inventive, surprising and fascinating' - The Times

'A page-turner that feels like sinking into a warm, deep bath. With Trollope you are always in safe hands. Highly recommended' -- Sunday Express

'Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction' -- Daily Telegraph

'Fascinating' -- ***** Reader review

'Absolutely gripping' -- ***** Reader review

'I could hardly bear to put it down' -- ***** Reader review

'Another unputdownable book from Joanna Trollope' -- ***** Reader review

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SOME SECRETS ARE TOO BIG TO STAY HIDDEN...

Chrissie had always believed that her husband Richie was the one. With their three daughters, a lovely house and a fulfilling career, things couldn't be much better. And even if he hadn't given her the one thing she really wanted, she knew he loved her.

But suddenly Richie is no longer there and, without him, Chrissie's carefully constructed life comes tumbling down and the secrets start to come out.

As the practicalities of Richie's will must be sorted out, Chrissie must tell her daughters of their father's other family, a wife and son he had abandoned years before and sworn never to see again. And now, it is finally time for the two families to face each other...

Reviews

Trollope is brilliant at swooping in on a modern dilemma and showing it from every angle... Inventive, surprising and fascinating

—— The Times

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

—— The Spectator

Trollope is shrewdly observant of human interaction

—— Daily Telegraph

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

—— Sunday Express

Joanna Trollope is the most emotionally intelligent of contemporary British novelists

—— Amanda Craig , Independent

Clever and thoughtful

—— Tatler

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

—— City A.M.

A pleasure

—— Sunday Times

Highly involving, deeply humane

—— Evening Standard

An absorbing read

—— Grazia

Beautifully crafted

—— Mirror

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

—— Bella

Dark and brilliantly absorbing

—— Heat

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

—— Sunday

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

—— Saga Magazine

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

—— Literary Review

Well drawn and convincing

—— Mail on Sunday

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

—— Daily Express

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

—— You Magazine

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

—— Evening Standard
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