Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.
He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect?
Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been married to his first wife, the one with a son that he had abandoned in Newcastle.
And now, with Richie gone and the practicalities of wills and money to be sorted out, it is finally time for the two families to face each other ...
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Extracts
Listen to an audio extract of The Other Family, read by Fenella Woolgar
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Music in The Other Family
Not only does music feature very strongly and emotionally in The Other Family, but it has also produced three real, recorded songs. Joanna wrote the lyrics and her friend, Jason Kouchak, wrote the music and performed the songs. The first two recordings are available here to download, with a third to follow shortly.
