Spanish Lover, A by Joanna Trollope - Used Book - Paperback - 1994 - from Aldergrove Books and Biblio.com

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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.

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"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."

Spanish Lover, A

by Trollope, Joanna

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Book desription: Black Swan Book, 1994. Paperback book is in very good condition. Soft cover shows minor signs of shelf wear on edges. Inside of book pages are crisp and clean; no stains. Some creasing on edge of spine. Slight wear on edges of soft cover. Publisher: Bantam Books. Approx: 7 by 5 x 1. Pictorial cover on front. 384 pages long. ISBN 0552995495. Additional pictures of condition are always available. BOOK DESCRIPTION: In Joanna Trollope's The Spanish Lover, Frances and Lizzie are twins, but the resemblance between them is strictly physical. Lizzie is married, a mother, the owner of a successful business. Frances is--well, people are beginning to worry about Frances now that she is almost 40. Instead of dwindling into respectable English spinsterhood, however, Frances moves to Spain and falls in love with a very married Spaniard named Luis, who, because he is Catholic, will never leave his wife. The repercussions of Frances's actions are unexpected indeed: as her life takes on new meaning and joy, the lives of her family back in England begin to crumble. If a talent for storytelling is a family trait, then Trollope (The Choir, LJ 10/1/95), a descendant of Anthony Trollope, has inherited it in spades, as her new book proves. From the title one might expect a fluffy romance, but this novel offers much more. It is also the story of a family, the trials and tribulations of ordinary people. Frances and Lizzie are the twin daughters of William and Barbara. Lizzie is married, with four children. Frances is single and owns a travel agency. On a business trip to Seville, Frances meets the man who will later become her "Spanish lover." The affair between Frances and Luis Gomez Moreno becomes the catalyst that causes shifts and changes in the whole family, for better and worse. Trollope constructs a beautiful plot, and her descriptions of Spain will have you itching to call your travel agent.. Paperback. Very Good/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bookseller: Aldergrove Books (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 000197
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Very Good
Jacket condition: None
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0552995495
ISBN 13: 9780552995498
Publisher: Black Swan Book
Date published: 1994
Size: 12x19 cm
Dewey: 823/.914
Keywords: Spanish, Lover, Joanna, Trollope, English, Spain, Catholic, Wife, England,
Subjects: FICTION / Romance / Historical;

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