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    <body><![CDATA[Precis: Two children adopted into the same family attempt to find their birth family. Tears and happiness await.<br/><br/>I have read too much Trollope. I can honestly say that I have met many of the characters in this book before in Trollope’s other books, and that they are behaving the same no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77878468">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book on CD read by the very capable Lindsay Duncan. I had never encountered Joanna Trollope before, but I have a feeling she's related to Anthony. Her attention to detail is exquisite (down to fabric patterns in clothes or carpets), and she writes with the same perception and symp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70058810">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Usually I love Joanna Trollope's books, but I liked this book less than the others I've read. It's about an adopted brother and sister who feel drawn in adult life to seek out their birth mothers. The story revolves around the emotional effects of this quest, on both of them and on all the people in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47200125">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened to be at Sefer ve-Sefel yesterday with some books to sell and was thinking of adding this one to the pile, even though I hadn't finished it.  I'm not sure why I decided not to, but this morning I thought, why am I struggling to finish this book when I'm really not enjoying it?  And that w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25063249">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was somehow not as gripping as JT's other novels, though it had her usual interesting earmarks--realistic, well-rounded characters with secrets that intermesh, and surprising plot twists that work.  It's about two adopted adults who look for and find their two very different birth mothers, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41493136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Adopted siblings given up at birth by different mothers begin a search for their biological parents.  Their searches affect their own families, their adoptive parents, the &quot;real&quot; parents, and many others.  Interesting study of how an innocent decision can affect many lives and relationship...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good up until about halfway through.  Then it turned a little soap-opera-ish for my tastes and the ending seemed a little sudden.  But it reminded me how much I like Joanna Trollope and what a good depictor she is of complex relationships!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Joanne Trollope has the wonderful gift of taking ordinary people and ordinary events and turning them into gripping fiction.  This is the stay up late kind of read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The usual very high quality Joanna Trollope fast read relationship comfort food]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[We all need to know where we come from, where we belong. But for David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people, because they are adopted. Brought up by the same parents, but born to different mothers, they have grown up, fiercely loyal to one another, as brother and sister. Their decision, in their late thirties, to embark upon the journey to find their birth mothers, is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their partners, the people they work with and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago, and who have since then made other lives, even borne other children. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity, Joanna Trollope once again works her magic. In this rich narrative, at once gritty and graceful, she exposes the extraordinary challenges that arise at the heart of ordinary lives.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have expected more... again well written but not as captivating as usual...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty. Their decision as adults to try to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their spouses and children, the people they work with, and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity, the celebrated author of Marrying the Mistress and The Rector's Wife once again works her magic.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I really loved about this book was that the seemingly meaningless or incidents that occured during conversations of the characters that the author describes actually give much insight into the characters and their development. These are actually carefully placed descriptions that help the reade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15820722">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty. Their decision as adults to try to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their spouses and children, the people they work with, and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity, the celebrated author of Marrying the Mistress and The Rector's Wife once again works her magic.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very satisfying read.  Trollope is a good storyteller who creates a tale of love, identity, hope, dissapointment, and back again to love.  The characters are real and nuanced, and there is a depth to their feelings and experiences that resonate with truthfulness.  Families are complicated, and bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21405623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty. Their decision as adults to try to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their spouses and children, the people they work with, and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity, the celebrated author of Marrying the Mistress and The Rector's Wife once again works her magic.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't wild about this book; it was the first one I've read by this author.  I never felt fully engrossed in what I was reading, but at the same time, I thought the dialogue was sooooo great, and because of that, I could gave it three stars.]]></body>
    
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