A Passionate Man (Portway Large Print Series) - Hardcover

Trollope, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745173160 ISBN 13: 9780745173160

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1992

Synopsis

Archie Logan, a country doctor, and his wife Liza lead an orthodox-seeming life, and everything is well until Archie's father, a widower for over 30 years, falls in love. His choice, a woman of powerful charm, has a profound effect on all the Logans, adults and children alike. The house and family turn from being a refuge to being a cage. Archie and Liza risk losing everything they have built. A Passionate Man is about a man's mid-life crisis and a woman's fear of failure. It is about fathers and sons, about sex and love, about loyalties and identities. It is also a story about modern village life.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Demonstrates again how good Joanna Trollope is at describing village life and how sure is her touch"
- Evening Standard

"An elegant, witty and deeply perceptive book"
-Women's Journal

From the Inside Flap:

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple.  Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her.  Now bedded firmly into country life-three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate,--they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.

When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone.  Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone--except Archie--adored at once.  Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life--a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0745173160
• ISBN 13: 9780745173160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320