Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.
Deliciously readable * The Times * Her prodigious flair for illuminating emotional situations guarantees the appeal of Trollope's work... immediate and engrossing * The Good Book Guide * An important novel * Evening Standard * Brilliantly perceptive * Daily Telegraph * Pacy, absorbing and compassionate * Daily Mail *