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Writer: Joanna Trollope; Genre: Fiction
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THE BEST OF FRIENDS Joanna Trollope (Viking, $23.95) Does love conquer all? And should it, when it breaks up families and once-happy marriages? Rarely have such thorny questions been probed with the wit, nuance, and honesty of Trollope's latest chronicle of English middle-class mores. After pianist Gina gets dumped by her art-dealer husband of 20 years, she falls into the arms of B&B keeper Laurence, her best friend since childhood. The lovers then confess their affair to Laurence's wife and their respective teenage children. How the fallout eventually settles is only slightly less satisfying than the way that Trollope makes you alternately love and loathe -- but never judge -- these characters. A-
Posted Jul 17, 1998
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