Joanna Trollope is the author of fourteen highly-acclaimed bestselling contemporary novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia's Daughters, and a number of historical novels. Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire, and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Trollope, as ever, can be relied upon to deliver a good read Mail on Sunday An entertaining novel Independent on Sunday With her customary acute observation, Joanna Trollope examines different attitudes to work, relationships and children...In this engrossing novel, Trollope makes her readers not only identify with her characters but also become deeply attached to them Waterstones Books Quarterly Hits a right and ringing note and keeps hitting it Independent Sharp observation of domestic detail -- Val Hennessy, Victoria Moore And Amber Pearson Daily Mail 20090116