Second Honeymoon

By: Joanna Trollope

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Paperback | 1 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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384 Pages

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When the last of your children has flown the nest, will there be time for a second honeymoon?

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair.

Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.

Reading Group Book Questions

How do Russell and Edie differ in their reactions to Ben's departure? Why is Edie so resistant to being alone with Russell? Is he so selfish to want her to himself? How realistic are his hopes that they can return to the marriage they had before they became parents?
End! Does parenthood ever, ever end? Parenthood, it seems, is for life, but what about childhood? How does each of the three children feel about their independence?
'The Victorians had described women who were hell bent on higher education as agamic, asexual.’ Why is it so hard for Matthew, and to an extent Ruth, to reconcile her superior earning power with her femininity and his masculinity? How does her pregnancy change this?
Joanna Trollope is not a comic novelist but her writing is laced with humour. How would you describe that humour? To what end does she use it in Second Honeymoon?
Many critics have noted the acuity of observation in Trollope's characterisation. How does she set about building her characters? Which characters did you feel were the strongest in this novel and why?

About The Author

Joanna Trollope is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling contemporary novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. She was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Industry Reviews

The author's witty manipulation of her characters recalls the other Trollope, although there is nothing Victorian about her style... perfectly pitched dialogue * The Times *
One of the finest chroniclers of the way we live now * Independent on Sunday *
Trollope has perfectly caught the angst of the empty nest... the ebb and flow of relationships is brilliantly handled * The Observer *
The queen of the domestic dilemma... observant and empathetic * The Sunday Times *
Trollope has always written well and convincingly about property. It's her refusal to divorce her characters' inner lives from the accumulated stuff of their outer ones that makes the best of it so compelling * The Daily Telegraph *

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