Synopses & Reviews
"With sparkling dialogue, Trollope brings all of her characters...to full life while managing to bestow unforgettable glimpses of Spain... She makes her readers want to drop everything in order to keep reading." (Publishers Weekly [starred review])
Review
"Frances and Lizzie are twin sisters, Frances solid and solitary, Lizzie more frayed but most decidedly married and settled. Out of character for once, Frances decides not to spend Christmas with Lizzie and her family as she has always done, but rather take a working holiday to Seville, where she falls in love with a handsome young Spaniard: Lizzie does not handle the news well. Trollope's novels tend to rely on simple, even 'borrowed' plots (there is more than a little of Where Angels Fear to Tread here) which afford her the space to exercise her particular strength: a clear, honest, gentle eye for detail in both setting and, especially, character. We can be fairly confident about what will happen next, and enjoy the perfect and meticulous way Trollope's portraits develop and deepen." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)