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Carregando... Mum & Dadde Joanna Trollope
   Books Read in 2021 (4,937) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Librogirl | Apr 26, 2022 |   ritaer | Jan 15, 2022 | Its like working on a chaotic jumble of a jigsaw puzzle; moving the pieces around until they fit as well as possible. Like mysteries I read, I tried guessing how it would all play out but I was totally wrong. Good to be happily surprised. A quick and pleasant read. Bookish59 | Oct 20, 2021 | Realistic, three-dimensional people interact in a variety of ways, and there's plenty to think about connected to family responsibilities and the impossibility of getting everything right. Different styles of marriage and parenthood are explored lightly, and the whole is a satisfying and quite uplifting story. Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2021/09/mum-and-dad-by-joanna-trollope.html (  ) SueinCyprus | Sep 22, 2021 |  ) froxgirl | May 15, 2021 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the city, is distracted by the problems with her long-term partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake, ever the easy-going optimist, is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their 18-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together?"--Publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Mum & Dad is a story of a fractured family, whose dysfunction is unravelled when Dad suffers a stroke in Spain, where he (and Mum) have lived for twenty-five years. Their three children, and their own children (ranging from toddlers to moody teenagers) have to disrupt their London lives to help.
Trollope writes thoughtfully, articulately, with emotion and compassion. Her characters are realistically imperfect: they're human and relatable. Their life stresses and pressures, their worries, their hopes are all recognisable.
Despite the slightly underwhelming ending, I found the story and the characters engaging and interesting, and as an introduction to this well-known author, it has propelled me into Trollope world! Many, many more to be read, very definitely! (