Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Joanna Trollope delves fearlessly into the emotional dynamics of family life - or rather, life in that ever-expanding unit, the stepfamily. There are the mothers - like Nadine, spurned, embittered, and trying desperately to hold on to her children any way she can; Elizabeth, the would-be stepmother, who only glimpses the shoals that lie ahead; Josie, the stepmother, who sees them all too clearly every day of her married life.
There are the men, like Matthew, who must live with another man's son and without his own children; and Tom, torn between his own desires and what he believes he owes his daughter. And then there are the children, all battling to find a place for themselves in this new order they haven't chosen.
With her sensitive eye and unerring ear, Trollope explores the hard-won truths and often harder-to-overcome difficulties of coping with present and former husbands and wives, and, above all, with other people's children.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
1990s, Domestic fiction, England, Fiction, Parent and child, Stepchildren, Stepfamilies, Stepparents, Large type books, Fiction, general, England, fictionPlaces
EnglandEdition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04
Other people's children
1999, Viking
in English
- Doubleday Direct large print ed.
0739404083 9780739404089
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
05 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09
Other people's children
1998, Little, Brown Canada
in English
- 1st Canadian ed.
0316851957 9780316851954
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10 |
zzzz
|
11
Other People's Children
September 1, 1998, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
Hardcover
- Large Print Ed edition
0754011542 9780754011545
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
12 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Scriblio MARC recordInternet Archive item record
marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Internet Archive item record
Promise Item
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record
Work Description
For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe Josie. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother, if she is peaceful and sane like Elizabeth. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur....
Excerpts
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?May 25, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 1, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 9, 2020 | Edited by canary666 | Edited without comment. |
February 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
October 13, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | create work page |