Joanna Trollope was born and brought up in Gloucestershire, and after reading English at Oxford, spent two years at the Foreign Office before starting a career in teaching, and writing part-time.

In 1980, she became a full-time author, writing a number of historical novels under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey, and BRITANNIA'S DAUGHTERS - a study of women in the British Empire - but it was not until 1987 that she published the first of her contemporary novels, THE CHOIR. She then went on to write eight more: 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 and OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.

Over the last few years, Trollope's reputation as a contemporary novelist has soared and soared. She recently won the Booksellers' Association 'Author of the Year' award and her UK paperback sales now total over five million.

Joanna lives near Cirencester and in London. Amongst her hobbies, Joanna lists reading, conversation and "very long baths". Four of her contemporary novels have been made into critically acclaimed TV adaptations.

Joanna Trollope was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Brother & Sister

'Pacy, absorbing and compassionate.' Daily Mail

'Brilliantly perceptive.' Daily Telegraph

'An important novel.' Evening Standard

Girl from the South

'An insightful novel from a writer at the height of her powers.' Women's Journal

'She writes so beautifully in a style so graceful and judicious that you would call it restful if it were not also palpably intelligent.' Evening Standard

'Joanna Trollope is a wonderful novelist of domestic detail. Girl From the South is, like all her books, a really good read, spiked with insight.' Observer
'Finely-observed family tensions.' Sunday Mirror

'At the heart of Trollope's tightly written, acutely observed novel is what it means to be a family.' New Statesman

'This is a novel about the modern affairs of the heart. It explores the dilemmas of men who won't commit themselves and women who yearn for sublime romantic love.' Daily Mail

'[Trollope writes] with such elegant precision - revelatory and ambiguous at just the right moments.' Evening Standard

'A cruelly funny book.most astute observation.' Daily Telegraph

'Subtle and delicate.' The Sunday Times

Marrying the Mistress

'Clever, clever, clever... probes right to the heart of a typically modern dilemma.' Daily Mail

'Particularly rich and satisfying.' Mail on Sunday

'Brilliant.' Spectator

'A swift and riveting read.' The Times

'This is Trollope at her best.' Woman & Home

Other People's Children

'This compelling, and at times heart-rending, novel is Trollope at her very best.' Ideal Home

'A gripping read - as shrewdly observant of psychological and domestic detail as anything she has written.' Daily Telegraph

'Wonderfully and compulsively readable.She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant.' Fay Weldon, Mail on Sunday

'Trollope has shown herself capable of such emotional depth, that although you turn the pages quickly, it is with trembling fingers.' The Times