5 Novels by Joanna Trollope
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Overview: Joanna Trollope has written eleven highly-acclaimed contemporary novels: The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress and Girl From the South. Other People’s Children has recently been shown on BBC television as a major drama serial. Under the name of Caroline Harvey she writes romantic historical novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters.
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire, where she still lives. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature.
Genre: Fiction > Contemporary
A Passionate Man: The Logans are an enchanting and admirable couple who have lived a charmed life ever since Archie snatched Liza from her engagement party to someone else. Now, bedded firmly into country life with everything comfortable, funny, affectionate, they await the arrival of Archie’s father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.
But when Sir Andrew arrives, he is not alone. Beside him is a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone – except Archie – adores at once. Archie sees his father’s mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life – a life that is to be wrenched apart before he and Liza can recreate their world.
A Spanish Lover: Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. At least that’s the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything – husband, children, a flourishing career, and a beautiful house. She worries about Frances, who seems to lead a solitary life in London ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to share in her own complete and satisfying life.
Then Frances, suddenly and surprisingly, announces she isn’t coming to Lizzie’s for Christmas. She’s going to Spain. Lizzie’s world begins to tilt. Frances’s Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity.
As Frances’s future begins to change into something exciting and unexpected, and Lizzie’s deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, could it be that Frances is the twin with everything?
A Village Affair: The Grey House is the answer to everything in Alice Jordan’s perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage – a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something crucial is missing?
As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village, opening up old wounds. But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour, understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself.
Next of Kin: The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro, and he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived from California twenty years ago, leaving Robin and the rest of the family to cope with the loss.
With Caro gone, her daughter Judy feels cut adrift, while Joe’s despair is deeper than anyone suspects. Into this unhappy family comes Zoe, Judy’s London friend, an outsider with an independent spirit and a disturbing directness. Everyone underestimates Zoe’s power as a catalyst for change as the realities behind the seeming idyll of a rural community become ever clearer.
The Men and the Girls: Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency and Kate has lived with James for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him, she’s apparently devoted to him. Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed.
But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent elderly woman from her bicycle, a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends of her own age and Julia’s career begins to blossom just as her husband’s starts to decline…
The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface.
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