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About This Book:

Title: A Spanish Lover

Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 1994
Hardcover, 1997
Paperback, 1998
Paperback, 2001

Synopsis
Lizzie is happily married to Robert and enjoying domestic bliss with her husband and her four children in a restored Georgian home in a village near Bath. Her twin sister, Frances, is in her late 30s, runs a successful travel business, but is still single. Lizzie regards her sister with pity and sympathy; emotions that Frances can only interpret as condescension. Frances's passionate affair with Luis Moreno, a married Spanish businessman, coincides with the disintegration of Lizzie's gallery business, the loss of her house, and the consequent strain on Lizzie's marriage. When Frances decides to have Luis's baby and live as a single mother in Spain, Lizzie's feelings of envy boil to the surface. In an effort toward reconciliation, the two sisters help one another come to terms with their concealed feelings, and they both freely embark on new chapters in their lives.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        384 Pages



Publisher Notes
First Line: Someone--probably one of the children; Robert would never have dared--had stuck a poster on the kitchen noticeboard. It was a small poster, printed in black and bright pink and yellow, and it showed a scatty drawing of a wild-haired woman hand in wing with a goggle-eyed turkey. Underneath the drawing it said, in wayward lettering, "Women and turkeys against Christmas."




Industry Reviews
"Like her illustrious ancestor, Trollope is a clear-eyed recorder of the sudden domestic tempests that roil even the most placid backwaters of English life....A wonderfully wise and bracingly honest novel that celebrates happiness and the good, quiet things that sustain the human spirit."
(11/01/1996)
"Remarkable...wonderful....'A Spanish Lover' is something we see all too rarely these days: a genuinely grown-up work of fiction, by, about and for grown-ups."
"An insightful and thoroughly engrossing story...Trollope makes her readers want to drop everything in order to keep on reading."


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is A Spanish Lover and it was written by Joanna Trollope. This edition of A Spanish Lover is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is May 2010 and it has a suggested retail price of $15. There are 384 pages in the book and it was published by Ballantine Books. The 10 digit ISBN is 0345520971 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780345520975. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.