Reviews

Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope

txreader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

pgchuis's review against another edition

4.0

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

3.5* rounded up.

This was very readable, as Joanna Trollope always is, and I enjoyed the first half very much. The second half however, during which various things were resolved, was less satisfactory. Some of the characters behaved in ways which moved the story along, but seemed completely out of the blue:

- why were Dermot and Marcus suddenly so keen to go to Spain?

- why did Monica decide to come to London and why did she suddenly bond with Marta?

- why didn't Anna ask Sebastian if it was true he was planning to run the vineyard with his father?

- when did Sebastian take control of the vineyard accounts (and wasn't it Anna really with the bookkeeping skills)?

- why was Jake surprised that his father (who had lived in Spain for decades) was resident there for tax purposes?

- why was it acceptable to call a child Mousie? (Maybe that just annoyed me!)

readingbee's review against another edition

emotional funny relaxing slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Lazy weekend read or great fir the train into work over a week or two