A Family Affair

by Nicola Thorne

Sam and Barbara had that rare an amicable divorce. And even though Sam has married again, to a bright, sexy, ambitious banker called Frankie, he and Barbara are bound together by their past, their three children and the affection of many years' happy marriage. When Frankie becomes pregnant and decides to exchange her career for motherhood, Sam's feelings are ambivalent. Having a second family isn't exactly what he bargained for when he traded in his first wife for a liberated younger model. Out of habit he turns to Barbara's familiar reassurance and her skills as a psychoanalyst -- which doesn't exactly please Frankie. Torn between two such powerful personalities, perhaps it's hardly surprising that Sam feels the need for a less demanding woman...

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Nicola Thorne (real name: Rosemary Ellerbeck) was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father was English and her mother a New Sealander, and she was brought up and educated in England. She graduated in Sociology at the London School of Economics, but always wanted to pursue a literary career and worked as a reader and editor while writing her first novels. In 1975 she left publishing to write full and and has now written a number of successful novels under the pseudonym Nicola Thorne. She lives in St. John's Wood, London.