A Spanish Lover: a compelling and engaging novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors, bestseller Joanna Trollope
Oct 2010 · Random House
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'A hugely enjoyable book' The Sunday Times
'Profoundly satisfying [and] acutely querying... A perceptive chronicler of our times' Sunday Express
'Her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm' Observer
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TWO LIVES INTERTWINED AND SEEMINGLY HARMONIOUS. ONE DECISION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything: husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house. She worries about Frances, who seems to lead a solitary life in London, ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to have a complete and satisfying life, just like hers.
Then one day Frances announces she isn't coming to Lizzie's for Christmas as usual - she's going to Spain instead. Suddenly and equally unexpectedly, Lizzie's world begins to tilt. Frances's Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity.
As Frances's future begins to change into something exciting and Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, long held assumptions are called into question.
Which twin really is the one with everything?
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What readers are saying:
'Beautifully written'
'Incredible'
'Couldn't put this book down 100% excellent'
'Profoundly satisfying [and] acutely querying... A perceptive chronicler of our times' Sunday Express
'Her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm' Observer
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TWO LIVES INTERTWINED AND SEEMINGLY HARMONIOUS. ONE DECISION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything: husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house. She worries about Frances, who seems to lead a solitary life in London, ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to have a complete and satisfying life, just like hers.
Then one day Frances announces she isn't coming to Lizzie's for Christmas as usual - she's going to Spain instead. Suddenly and equally unexpectedly, Lizzie's world begins to tilt. Frances's Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity.
As Frances's future begins to change into something exciting and Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, long held assumptions are called into question.
Which twin really is the one with everything?
_____________________
What readers are saying:
'Beautifully written'
'Incredible'
'Couldn't put this book down 100% excellent'
Ratings and reviews
4.0
2 reviews
About the author
Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire.
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.
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