{"product_id":"marrying-the-mistress","title":"Marrying The Mistress","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust as one has forgotten the intense pleasure of reading Trollope, along comes another flawless novel.\" -Library Journal (starred review)\n\nA pleasure to read.\" -The Washington Post\n\nDespite its title, Marrying the Mistress 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. ReadingMarrying the Mistress is like spying on the neighbors that everyone on the street is gossiping about-without the guilt.\" -Salon.com\n\nA modern-day Austen.\" -Library Journal (starred review)\n\nMasterful storyelling and memorable charactersa wise and gently truthful take on a highly charged subject.\" -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\nThis novel should easily vault onto the bestseller lists.\" -Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\n[Marrying the Mistress] must be the popular British writer's most daring novel, as well as one of her most interestingbracing and originalTrollope at her most challenging and thought-provoking.\" -The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n\nEntertaininggreat beach reading.\" -USA Today\n\nA novel rich in accurate, piercing detail of domestic life and populated with strongly developed, realistic charactersabsorbing and excellent.\" -Booklist\n\nSplendidly nuanced.\" -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\nA great beach or vacation read.\" -The Baltimore Sun\n\nTrollope again displays her extraordinary gift for representing the intricacies of familial relationships and the vicissitudes of domestic lifeNone 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.\" -Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\nEssential.\" -Library Journal (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41078997188814,"sku":"9780425242247","price":9.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/marrying-the-mistress-9780425242247-3828083097644.jpg?v=1648785222","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/marrying-the-mistress","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}