
Breaking the Trust
Lucy Clare(Author)
Little, Brown Book Group (Publisher)
Published on 7. November 2002
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-316-72471-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jack Palmer appears to be the archetypal patriarch, but when he dies his three middle-aged children learn that he has an older, illegitimate son, Titus, conceived in his first year of marriage to their mother Clattie. Of his legitimate children, Ralph and Pippa are furious. But ambitious Hugh, the youngest, has something to prove to his dead father. When he finds that Titus owns some potentially lucrative business premises in London, he sees it as an opportunity to fulfil a life-long dream to run a restaurant. But Titus is part of the deal and the two men are forced into partnership. Mutual misunderstanding leads to a breakdown in communications between them, and the rest of the family watch the disintegration of their relationship with its inevitable consequences for them all. Only the wives can see the situation clearly and it is their actions that finally bring the two men to their senses. Lucy Clare has written another highly entertaining novel about the worst -- and the best -- in family relationships.
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Edition
Library edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-72471-5 (9780316724715)
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Person
Lucy Clare was born in 1949. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is married to the actor James Woolley, and they have four children. She worked in the theatre and ran a gift shop before becoming a magazine editor. BREAKING THE TRUST is her second novel.