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. Her other novels include A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, A Spanish Lover and Next of Kin. She recently won the Booksellers' Association 'Author of the Year' award and her UK paperback sales now total over five million. Joanna Trollope was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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