Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope OBEis a British writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 December 1943
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It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.
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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
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I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
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All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
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Two things: a lifelong fascination dating from reading fairy stories as a child with stepmothers, why are they always supposed to be "wicked"?
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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!