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The Toppling Towers

Barbara Willard

3.5/5 ( ratings)

To the young Towers, smart showrooms and offices are a much less attractive part of their family firm than repair shop grease and vintage brass radiators. Sisters, brothers and cousins, they are almost all car-mad and set on careers as designers, drivers and engineers. When a takeover bid is made for Tower Motors, it seems to threaten the family's whole way of life, for the present and for years to come. As if there were not enough, there are also other, more intimate problems to be met and mastered. Of all her cousins, Jo Tower is perhaps the most aware of changes in the relationships around her. Not quite grown-up, she awkwardly and then joyfully accepts a new dimension in a childhood friendship. And just as it is Jo who resents most bitterly the changes in her family fortunes, it is she, of all the young Towers, who has to fight hardest to survive tragedy and to build again for the future.

A completely absorbing story of contemporary family life, this is in fact the second half of a saga that Barbara Willard began so successfully in The Family Tower.

ISBN: 0582158427

ISBN 13: 9780582158429

The Toppling Towers

Barbara Willard

3.5/5 ( ratings)

To the young Towers, smart showrooms and offices are a much less attractive part of their family firm than repair shop grease and vintage brass radiators. Sisters, brothers and cousins, they are almost all car-mad and set on careers as designers, drivers and engineers. When a takeover bid is made for Tower Motors, it seems to threaten the family's whole way of life, for the present and for years to come. As if there were not enough, there are also other, more intimate problems to be met and mastered. Of all her cousins, Jo Tower is perhaps the most aware of changes in the relationships around her. Not quite grown-up, she awkwardly and then joyfully accepts a new dimension in a childhood friendship. And just as it is Jo who resents most bitterly the changes in her family fortunes, it is she, of all the young Towers, who has to fight hardest to survive tragedy and to build again for the future.

A completely absorbing story of contemporary family life, this is in fact the second half of a saga that Barbara Willard began so successfully in The Family Tower.

ISBN: 0582158427

ISBN 13: 9780582158429

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