{"product_id":"marrying-the-mistress-paperback","title":"Marrying the Mistress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Just as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel.\" --\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A pleasure to read.\" --\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Despite its title, \u003cb\u003eMarrying the Mistress\u003c\/b\u003e is no mere sexy romp detailing the lurid details of a juicy affair. Instead, Joanna Trollope offers a domestic drama that gives us an insider's view of what happens to a family when the respected head of the household--60-year-old judge Guy Stockdale--announces he is leaving his wife of 40 years to marry his much younger mistress, Merrion. From his teenage grandson who thinks it's cool that Gramps can still snag a hot young babe to his feisty daughter-in-law who sets up a secret meeting to check out the Other Woman, this is a nuanced tale that manages to be both familiar and surprising. What makes the situation complex--and the book beach-bag worthy--is that Merrion is far from the stereotypical villain\/slut\/husband stealer. She is intelligent, independent, successful and impossible not to like. Reading \u003cb\u003eMarrying the Mistress\u003c\/b\u003e is like spying on the neighbors that everyone on the street is gossiping about--without the guilt.\" --\u003cb\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A modern-day Austen.\" --\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful storyelling and memorable characters...a wise and gently truthful take on a highly charged subject.\" --\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This novel should easily vault onto the bestseller lists.\" --\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003cb\u003eMarrying the Mistress\u003c\/b\u003e] must be the popular British writer's most daring novel, as well as one of her most interesting...bracing and original...Trollope at her most challenging and thought-provoking.\" --\u003cb\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Entertaining...great beach reading.\" --\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A novel rich in accurate, piercing detail of domestic life and populated with strongly developed, realistic characters...absorbing and excellent.\" --\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Splendidly nuanced.\" --\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A great beach or vacation read.\" --\u003cb\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Trollope again displays her extraordinary gift for representing the intricacies of familial relationships and the vicissitudes of domestic life...None of the themes here--betrayal and anger, the lovers' age difference, the grasping mother, the daughter-in-law's resentment--are terribly unusual, but Trollope's proven ability to present them intelligently, as moral and emotional tangles faced by thinking, interesting people, satisfyingly combines the universally recognizable and the intellectually engaging.\" --\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Essential.\" --\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67578650853599,"sku":"9780425179642","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/h5M1pgq3169780425179642.webp?v=1790405633","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/marrying-the-mistress-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}