A Family Affair by - no idea (audio)
4/10
I picked this CD set up from the library, where there is a very limited choice. It looked suitably brainless for driving up and down the motorway, and so it was.
It was an Aga-saga! But not as endearing as those that Joanne Trollope writes (though I seem to recall that I have said I wouldn't read her again)
There must be thousands of books like this out there - well-to-do middle-class family (I mean really middle-class, not aspiring professionals - these were posh) has family business ('Victoriana') selling romantic dresses to other slightly less posh people. Business hits a crisis; mum is ill, one of the 3 off-spring has to take over and run it - who will it be? Will it be the flighty actress that mum has never loved? Will it be the ruthless ambitious no-heart city man and his even worse scheming wife? Or will it be the perfect housewife, who is bored with keeping her husband and teenage brats happy and well-fed?
Well, you'll never know, unless you read it.
I have given it 4 / 10 because I stuck with it to the end. I tend to give lower marks when I give up at page 20.
CDs don't have pages.
xx
4/10
I picked this CD set up from the library, where there is a very limited choice. It looked suitably brainless for driving up and down the motorway, and so it was.
It was an Aga-saga! But not as endearing as those that Joanne Trollope writes (though I seem to recall that I have said I wouldn't read her again)
There must be thousands of books like this out there - well-to-do middle-class family (I mean really middle-class, not aspiring professionals - these were posh) has family business ('Victoriana') selling romantic dresses to other slightly less posh people. Business hits a crisis; mum is ill, one of the 3 off-spring has to take over and run it - who will it be? Will it be the flighty actress that mum has never loved? Will it be the ruthless ambitious no-heart city man and his even worse scheming wife? Or will it be the perfect housewife, who is bored with keeping her husband and teenage brats happy and well-fed?
Well, you'll never know, unless you read it.
I have given it 4 / 10 because I stuck with it to the end. I tend to give lower marks when I give up at page 20.
CDs don't have pages.
xx
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