A Spanish Lover

Lizzie is the twin sister who has always gotten everything right; Frances has never quite measured up. Now, in this wonderful novel by Joanna Trollope, Frances will shock her family by taking a married lover, a Spanish Catholic with no intentions of leaving his wife - and Lizzie will be left to cope with her own surprising reaction.

"With sparkling dialogue, Trollope brings all of her characters to full life while managing to bestow unforgettable glimpses of Spain....She makes her readers want to drop everything in order to keep reading." (Publishers Weekly [starred review])

In Joanna Trollope's The Spanish Lover, Frances and Lizzie are twins, but the resemblance between them is strictly physical. Lizzie is married, a mother, the owner of a successful business. Frances is--well, people are beginning to worry about Frances now that she is almost 40. Instead of dwindling into respectable English spinsterhood, however, Frances moves to Spain and falls in love with a very married Spaniard named Luis, who, because he is Catholic, will never leave his wife. The repercussions of Frances's actions are unexpected indeed: as her life takes on new meaning and joy, the lives of her family back in England begin to crumble.

Joanna Trollope, a descendant of novelist Anthony Trollope, has inherited her esteemed ancestor's talent for storytelling. In this bittersweet tale set on the Iberian peninsula, she deftly maps the complex relationships that exist within families and the equally complicated relations between lovers.