Kindle: Susan Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly profitable company and now her three daughters are all involved in the business.
Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of distinctive design, Susie is justly proud of her family and her achievement - and has no intention of letting it change.
But what of the men in the family?
Susie's husband, a musician and artist, has always seemed happy to take a back seat. One of her sons-in-law has few ambitions outside the home. Another daughter, though, has brought her husband into the company and they want to change things, much to Susie's distress.
And then into the mix arrives Susie's father, an ageing hippy who abandoned Susie as a baby. Now he's alone, and wants to build bridges, although Susie's daughters are outraged at the idea.
Can the needs of a family business override the needs of the family itself?
In wanting to preserve her business, will Susie lose something much more precious?
About the author: Joanna Trollope was born in December 1943. She is the eldest of three, the mother of two daughters and the stepmother of two stepsons - and now a grandmother. Joanna went to school in Surrey and then to Oxford. After a spell in the Foreign Office, she became a teacher before becoming a full time writer. She first wrote historical novels under the name Caroline Harvey, then Britannia's Daughters (1983), followed by her contemporary works of fiction, several of which have been televised. The Choir (1988) was her first contemporary novel and The Rector's Wife (1991), her first number one bestseller, made her into a household name. Joanna was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to literature.
She has a huge commitment to people: "I mind more and more about people, especially vulnerable and disadvantaged ones." She supports The Gloucestershire Community Foundation, The March Foundation, for Dementia, RNIB (especially the Right to Read Campaign), the Meningitis Trust, Mulberry Bush School and Breast Cancer Care. When she considers what has happened to her career in the last ten years, she often thinks, as her friend Jilly Cooper once said, "You'd believe it, wouldn't you, if it happened to someone else."
Balancing Act will be out on 27 February 2014 in hardback, Kindle and paperback forms.
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