'Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope' Good Housekeeping
An Unsuitable Match, by number one bestselling author Joanna Trollope, is an a uplifting story of love, family and second chances.
'Why on earth, after all you've been through, all you've survived, all you've achieved, why do you want to get married?'
Rose Woodrowe has just got engaged to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter . . .
Like Rose's daughter, Laura, who remembers her parents' painful divorce and doesn't want to see her mother hurt again. Or the twins, Emmy and Nat, who simply don't trust the man their mother has fallen for. Then there's Tyler's children: Seth, too busy with his San Francisco sourdough bakery to get to know his father's new partner; and Mallory, the aspiring actress, who is still wrestling with the issues of her own childhood.
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?
Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope Good Housekeeping
No one captures family dynamics like Joanna Trollope: the shifts and rifts and nuances, the knock-on effects of life decisions . . . A pitch-perfect novel - Sunday Express
Joanna Trollope at her finest, writing about the complexity of simple things - Good Housekeeping
The plot, knitting all the couple's children together in a web of mutual interest, is clever and has some unexpected outcomes. The scenes also abound with delicious contemporary tropes. An absorbing, slickly executed treat. - Daily Mail
The unmatchable Joanna Trollope at her best - Choice
Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy - The Times
Joanna Trollope's novels address the issues and emotional journeys that face women today - Sunday Express
With her compassion for her characters, Trollope cuts to the quick of family life, and the difference between men and women -- Fanny Blake - Woman & Home
Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence ... she writes absorbing, wise stories that dramatise the dilemmas we face - Sunday Times
Author
About Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope was our Guest Editor in February 2012 - click here - to see the books that inspired her writing.
Joanna Trollope OBE has written numerous highly-acclaimed contemporary novels including: The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South, Brother and Sister, Second Honeymoon, Friday Night, The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law andThe Soldier's Wife. Under the name of Caroline Harvey she writes romantic historical novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters.
Joanna Trollope was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature and was the Chair of Judges for the Orange Prize form Fiction 2012.
