Product Description

Katherine is offered a place at university to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman. She little expects to find herself in his home and in love with his son Roger. When the affair ends badly, she flees to Rome. She returns ten years later to discover that their lives are inextricably bound.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #387350 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

A cold day, a hot drink, a duvet and this book - perfection.
Just like the heroine Catherine has her favourite book (Emma), to which she turns in times of trouble, I have Brother of the More Famous Jack.

Read her later books to rediscover some of the characters in older manifestations.

Read this brilliant book!
The synopsis makes this book sound like a very ordinary romantic story, but it's much better than that. It's funny, clever and insightful, and there are lines in it that I still remember. The heroine's favourite novel is Emma, and she is a bit in love with Mr Knightley (who she sees as always appearing in doors, knocking mud off his boots ...). If you like witty stories with happy endings (viz Jane Austen) you will like Barbara Trapido.

Sharp, funny, moving
I love both this book and its sequel, The Travelling Horn Player. Katherine is an endearingly off-centre narrator. This novel is really about her shaky coming of age. Her honesty and self-awareness make you pull for her and the bright, engaging characters she meets during this time (especially the glittering Goldman family) keep the reader entertained and amused. Her experiences are often painful but they, and her responses to them, ring true. The Jonathan, as he is towards the end of this novel, is one of the sexiest men in fiction - although he loses it somewhat by the time he appears in TTHP.