Other People＇s Children其他人的孩子们

Best-selling English writer Trollope, who has a following here as well, has the knack of rendering people's lives with infinite clarity and truth. Here she plumbs the effects of divorce and remarriage on children, as Josie and Matthew marry and try to create a family with her son and his three children. This is no Brady bunch, but the emotionally messy world of children (and adults) is so palpably real that the reader will know them as well or better than their own children. Those who have read Trollope (e.g., The Best of Friends, LJ 5/15/98) know that her endings are never simple, happily ever after, and one outcome here seems similar to that in The Men and the Girls. Nevertheless, her writing and characterization place her far above the commonplace. Highly recommended.?Francine Fialkoff, Library Journal
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