Joanna Trollope
Novelist was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. She worked at the Foreign Office and was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980.
She first wrote a number of historical novels now published under Caroline Harvey, then Britannia鈥檚 Daughters - a study of women in the British Empire and more recently, her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction, several of which have been televised. The Choir was her first contemporary novel, followed by A Village Affair and A Passionate Man. The Rector's Wife was her first number one bestseller, and made her into a household name. Since then she has written five more contemporary novels: The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People鈥檚 Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South and Brother and Sister.
