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Loading... Marrying the Mistressby Joanna Trollope
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It was an easy decision when 62-year old Guy Stockdale decided to marry his young mistress. He could see his future clearly. Unfortunately he could not imagine the reaction of family. This is a clever story describing intertwined relationships and just how the balance is upset when a change is made. The characters are complex, believable, and all deserving of the reader’s sympathy. The solution is tidy but unexpected. (  ) VivienneR | Aug 10, 2009 |  Joanna Trollope is a writer who engages the reader on every page. Her characters are human, believable, sometimes infuriating, often enchanting. A woman who understands a woman's view of the world (  ) landofashes | Nov 5, 2007 | Total rubbish I am afraid. I read this as part of a book club or I would never had chosen it and I was right. It was badly written, not interesting in the slightest and a total waste of my time to read. The only character that I felt any empathy towards was Jack the teenage boy. The rest of the characters were dull and poorly written. My advice don't read it. (  ) mooknits | Oct 17, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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The court official leaned closer.And what's going past is the life of Guy Stockdale, a 62-year-old judge, who has been married forever, has two sons--Simon and Alan--and three grandchildren. For the past seven years, he's also had a mistress. Merrion Palmer is intelligent, attractive, and half Guy's age, which also makes her younger than both Simon and Alan. Her dad died when she was a toddler and she's well aware that Guy is something of a father substitute. For years the role of mistress has suited her, but, suddenly, this style of relationship isn't enough for either of them. They've both had enough of sneaking around and avoiding people, so Guy has momentously made up his mind to leave his wife, Laura, and marry Merrion.
"What's gone past," he said, "is not just an advocate, any old lady advocate. What's gone past is his Honour's totty."
Marrying the Mistress dives into the shock waves that buffet the Stockdale family after Guy leaves Laura. The novel addresses the question of how his sons are going to cope, the explosive opinions of his forthright daughter-in-law Carrie and what his teenage grandchildren make of it all. Can any of them avoid taking sides? Should they? And what about the abandoned wife, Laura, a woman apparently so long-sufferingly self-sacrificing she makes Mother Teresa look selfish?
From queen of the saga Joanna Trollope comes a dexterous portrayal of the causes and effects of marital breakdown: the stresses, the battle of wills, the bitterness and personal growth, the renegotiation of relationships--and an exposure of the depths to which the moral high ground can sink.--Lisa Gee
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