num_pages: 224
description: Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane, gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his volatile younger brother, Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns to find the Goldmans again.
language: English
title: Brother of the More Famous Jack
titlecomplete: Brother of the More Famous Jack
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Book Club, Romance, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4152
publisher: Penguin