A British family separated by divorce, money, and 15 years without sitting down to dinner together is lumpily reconciled in Louise Dean’s fourth novel, The Old Romantic. Estranged from one of his sons and irritated to suffocation by his second wife, Ken Goodyew is finding his retirement in a less picturesque corner of a British countryside somewhat less than relaxing. He entices his older son Nick, a lawyer, to come home for a family dinner only to discuss wills and trusts; after that attempt collapses, he enlists grandson Matt in looking for arsenic-pill sales online, and appoints himself as ...
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