Bøger af Joanna Trollope

In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. They people this book as they peopled the Empire - their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.

And, equally unexpectedly, 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 Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat into her ideal lifestyle, could it be that Frances is the twin with everything?.

Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed. But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge.

For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels.

Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.

__________A Village Affair, by highly acclaimed author Joanna Trollope, is a stylish, warm story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair. The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life.

Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit.

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 now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago.

Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves.

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his relationship with Merrion with the world. He wants, dammit, to marry her.

What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe Josie.

Gina and Laurence have been best friends. Now, Gina is married to Fergus and Laurence to Hilary. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their daughter. Gina turns for emotional support to Laurence. And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction.

Krisen lurer i en af Englands smukke gamle domkirkebyer. Midlerne er begrænsede, og domkirken trænger til en større reparation. Bystyrets ene fløj, med den magtfulde domprovst Hugh Cavendish i spidsen, ønsker domkirken restaureret for enhver pris. Også selv om man bliver nødt til at sælge ud af flere hundrede års traditioner for at finde midlerne. Det betyder, at kirkens berømte drengekor og musikskole må lade livet.Men ikke alle er enige i den beslutning. En anden fløj i bystyret kæmper indædt for at bevare koret, koste hvad det vil.Joanna Trollope (f. 1943) er en engelsk forfatterinde, der også har skrevet bøger under pseudonymet Caroline Harvey. I 1980 vandt hun prisen for bedste romantiske udgivelse med romanen "Parson Harding’s Daughter". Joanna Trollope er bedst kendt for sine familiedramaer og kærlighedsromaner, hvor især den menneskelige psykologi og forholdet mennesker imellem er realistisk beskrevet.

Gillon er født og opvokset i USA. Hun har en uddannelse i kunsthistorie, men har forladt universitetet i Carolina inden færdiggørelsen af sin ph.d. Hun har fået et midlertidigt job på Pinckney Kunstmuseum, men hendes chef anbefaler hende at søge job i London, som vil give hende store udviklingsmuligheder.Gillon får jobbet, men føler sig meget ensom og utilpasset i den store by. En dag træffer hun ved en reception en pige på sin egen alder, og det ender med, at hun bliver tilbudt at flytte ind hos pigen, som bor sammen med sin kæreste, og pludselig er Gillon med i en flok bestående af vidt forskellige unge. De har tilsyneladende uanede muligheder, men er forvirrede i deres ubeslutsomhed; af de vidtspændte muligheder for valg; af de ufleksible traditioner; af deres forældres efterladenhed over for egen ægteskabelige forhold - og så det stadig at være blændet af forestillingen om den store kærlighed. Mændende kan ikke forpligte sig, pigerne kan ikke forlige uafhængighed og moderskab. Og tiden går...