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A review by pgchuis
Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope
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!)
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 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!)