Synopses & Reviews
Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years, Second Honeymoon explores what happens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.
Ben Boyd is leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family and the last to leave. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. Ben's brother, Matthew, is wrestling with a relationship in which he earns less than his successful girlfriend. Their sister Rosa is wrestling with debt, and the end of a turbulent love affair. Living on your own, it seems, may not be as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. Rosa is the first of the Boyd children to think she may have to move back in with her parents--just until she can make ends meet again.
This is the empty nest, twenty-first-century style--with grown children coming and going just as parents are getting ready for their second honeymoon. With characteristic grace and humor, Trollope weaves multiple stories of two generations struggling with love, careers, and parenthood into a riveting family drama.
Review
"Although it would be a bit much to pronounce Trollope the Austen of our age, it must be said that she comes close."
--Washington Post"Charming, as sweet-tart as a jar of lemon curd, and a lot of fun."--Detroit Free Press
"[Trollope's] sharp, witty prose gives the reader a welcome perch from which to observe the Boyd family's sometimes messy, but certainly interesting, lives."--Wall Street Journal
"The novel charms with its portrait of a marriage that stays strong by treading gently, and with a fleeting glimpse of London, ancient and eternal in its Olympian indifference to ephemeral human folly."--Boston Globe
Synopsis
Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years explores whathappens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.
Synopsis
Now that her third and last child has left the nest, Edie Boyd's life turns suddenly and uncomfortably silent. She begins to yearn for the maternal intimacy that now seems lost to her forever. Be careful what you wish for...Before long, a mother-and-child reunion is in full swing: life away from the nest has proven to be unexpectedly daunting to the children, who one-by-one return home, bringing their troubles. With an unannounced new phase of parenthood suddenly stretching ahead of her, Edie finds her home more crowded than ever. In this touching, artful novel, Joanna Trollope has created a family drama for the ages, a moving story of work, love and eternal parenthood.
About the Author
Joanna Trollope, the nationally bestselling author of sixteen other books, including Brother & Sister, Marrying the Mistress, and The Rector's Wife, lives in London and Oxford, England.