Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope OBE (born December 9, 1943, in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire), is an English novelist.

Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Trollope was formerly married to the television dramatist Ian Curteis. She is distantly related to Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope.

Trollope's books are generally upmarket family dramas and romances, that somewhat transcend these genres via striking realism in terms of human psychology and relationships. Several of her novels have been adapted for television. The best-known is "The Rector's Wife".

Bibliography

*"The Choir" (1988)
*"A Village Affair" (1989)
*"A Passionate Man" (1990)
*"The Rector's Wife" (1991)
*"The Men and the Girls" (1992)
*"A Spanish Lover" (1993)
*"The Best of Friends" (1998)
*"Next of Kin" (1996)
*"Other People's Children" (1998)
*"Marrying the Mistress" (2000)
*"Girl from the South" (2002)
*"Brother and Sister" (2004)
*"Second Honeymoon (2006)
*"Friday Nights (2007)

Historical novels

(Mostly written under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.)
*"Eliza Stanhope" (Not written under a pseudonym)
*"Legacy of Love" (1980)
*"A Second Legacy" (1993)
*"A Castle in Italy" (1993)
*"Parson Harding's Daughter" (1996)
*"The Steps of the Sun" (1996)
*"The Brass Dolphin" (1997)
*"City of Gems" (1999)
*"The Taverner's Place" (2000)
*"Leaves from the Valley"

ee also

*AGA saga

External links

* [http://www.joannatrollope.com Joanna Trollope's website] features a biography, bibliography, extracts and interviews.
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02H2L291412634654 Joanna Trollope biography] from the British Council
* [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Trollope,%20Joanna Joanna Trollope at Random House Australia]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2175641.htm] Interview with Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National The Book Show on her book Friday Nights.