I liked the strong female characters and I liked the unconventional house-husbands.

What about two? If you like Joanna Trollope, and enjoy this sort of English domestic drama this might be for you, but I would recommend some of her earlier works over this.

There was something in this book that I actually found offensive. The daughters, now adults, are now part of the business and friction inside and outside the factory starts to fray everyone's nerves.I usually love Joanna Trollope's books, but this one was a bit of a disappointment. The story centres on Susie Moran, who founded and runs a successful pottery company. I find it shocking that I might to some extent have been using them to inform my view of how family life ought to go. I've read a few of Joanna Trollope's books and always found them engaging and page-turning, but this one was more of a trial. Think it's also time to introduce Mouse Paint to the little pickle!We've all played "balance" on a teeter-totter as children. The illustrations are done through paper cutouts, and are very simple, colorful and easy to interpret. Everyone jumping around on the teeter totter.

1442407573 I have to say that sadly it doesn't match up to her earlier books. I struggled to engage with the characters and found Susie's relationship with her husband to be under-developed. When you add one animal to one side, you have to add another. Cute cause-and-effect book about two mice and their other animal friends trying to balance on a stick. I saw the light of understanding go on in her eyes as the animals piled up and tipped the teeter-totter.

Start by marking “Balancing Act” as Want to Read: I really like all the concepts you can introduce to a child when you're reading this. It tells the story of a family run business, and of Susie and her daughters who run it. Jasper, the father, was the most interesting character...[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, June 2015.

I kept thinking, 'In a page or two, I'm bound to get more interested' and when the long-lost father turned up, I was hopeful. Everyone leaves to find something else to do, but the mice continue to play at their balancing act.

As other animals join them, they find it more and more difficult to keep the balance just right. To create our lis...Susie Moran is a success . Her three daughters, Cara, Ashley and Grace, and one son in law, Daniel, are all involved in the highly profitable business.

Balancing Act, the sequel to Making the Cut, is a realistic fiction book by Margaret Gurevich. I have been closely involved with two family business and know there can be tensions but the way the relationships between mother and daughters were played out didn't quite ring true.It's sixteen years since I last read a Joanna Trollope novel.

Maybe too many characters and never enough time to get invested in each character. The author had done a lot of research about The Potteries and the whole process of making pottery but at the beginning I felt that all of this information got in the way of the story and slowed theHmm! But then the weiTwo mice put together a stick and rock to make a teeter-totter. As usual, giftedTrollope has got under the skin of her characters and,in the work, we recognise real people in real problematic family situations As usual the ends do not tie up neatly into a "happily ever after" scenario but we do see hope for all the characters. A shame as I think the family (characters generally) in the book could become the basis for a pretty compelling trilogy........A really disappointing offering from Joanna Trollope after the brilliant Soldier's Wife? I probably didn't do myself or Joanna Trollope any favours after reading this so soon after Daughters in Law, which I love. This is an excellent book to introduce preschoolers to the concept of balance.


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