An Unsuitable Match: An Emotional and Uplifting Story about Second Chances

by Joanna Trollope

Overview

An Unsuitable Match, by bestselling author Joanna Trollope, is an uplifting story of love in the autumn years, and the complexities of family bonds.

'Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope' – Good Housekeeping

As Rose Woodrowe and Tyler Masson embark on their journey of rediscovered love and second chances, they find themselves faced with the strong opinions of their grown-up children.

Who to listen to? Who to please? Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?

Immerse yourself in this heart-stirring exploration of love, family conflict, and the intricacies of starting anew.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509823482
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Series:	Aziza's Secret Fairy Door , #272
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	316,947
File size:	909 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector’s Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters in Law. She was appointed OBE in 1996, a trustee of the National Literacy Trust in 2012, and a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund in 2016. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes including chairing the BBC National Short Story Awards for 2017. She has been part of two DCMS panels on public libraries and is patron of numerous charities, including Meningitis Now and Chawton House Library. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in the Austen Project. An Unsuitable Match is her twenty-first novel.
Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress, Daughters in Law and City of Friends. She was appointed OBE in 1996, and a trustee of the National Literacy Trust in in 2012. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes; she has been part of two DCMS panels on public libraries and is patron of numerous charities, including Meningitis Now, and Chawton House Library. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in the Austen Project.

Editorial Reviews

06/04/2018
In Trollope’s lighthearted contemporary, a divorced 64-year-old grandmother discovers love again, but her family isn’t so thrilled. Rose Woodrowe is enjoying a pleasant if uneventful life, living in a mews house in London and working as a medical translator. Tyler Masson, a widower who knew Rose from a tennis camp where they met as teenagers, becomes reacquainted with her at a London play and proposes marriage four months later. Though Rose is in love with Tyler, she is very close to her adult children and concerned about how they will react to her wish to remarry. Laura, a physician, wants to see her mother happy but is wary of how quickly Tyler is moving. Nat and Emmy, Rose’s twins, share those concerns and dislike that someone is taking their mother’s attention away from them. The complexity of familial relationships breathes realism and intensity into this novel, especially when Tyler’s actress daughter, Mallory, meets Rose’s family and befriends Emmy. Trollope (City of Friends) creates a seamless story complete with flawed, believable characters whose relatable lives will appeal to readers of all ages.

Publishers Weekly

"The Roman poet Horace once said that the exceptional writer was one who could wield ordinary words so skillfully that, in his hands, the ordinary was made new. But for the fact that Horace said it more than two thousand years ago, he might have been speaking of Joanna Trollope. Here is a writer who marshals simple prose and constructs stories around everyday people, but in her hands the humdrum is made strikingly fresh." —Washington Post Book World


"The matchless Joanna Trollope works both sides of the Atlantic in her novel Girl from the South . . . [Her] pitch-perfect ear adn measured insidghts make for an elegant read. —O: The Oprah Magazine on Girl from the South


"engrossing" —Southern Living Online


“The complexity of familial relationships breathes realism and intensity into this novel.”—Publishers Weekly 

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