Books by Joanna Trollope

Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they're counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal? Mum and Dad by the Sunday Times bestseller, Joanna Trollope, is a wise, brilliantly-drawn examination of a modern family dilemma.

Joanna Trollope's much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year.Two sisters could hardly be more different.Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere as she dreams of going to art school.But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years, their values are severely put to the test.Can Elinor remain stoic knowing that the man she likes has been ensnared by another girl? Will Marianne's faith in love be shaken by meeting the hottest boy in the county? And when social media is the controlling force at play, can love ever triumph over conventions and disapproval?Joanna Trollope casts Sense & Sensibility in a fresh new light, re-telling a coming-of-age story about young love and heartbreak, and how when it comes to money especially, some things never change...

And what about the men - and the children - in their lives?Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family.

Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights.

At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.

Crisis loomed in the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral. The urbane and worldly Dean wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Each human dilemma took its part in the turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir.

City of Friends is the number one bestselling twentieth novel from the highly acclaimed author, Joanna Trollope.She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from Steve reading with uncharacteristic imperiousness, 'Call me.' She couldn't. She couldn't call anyone . . . She leaned forward, gripping the edge of the bench, and stared at the ground. God, she thought, am I losing my mind? Is this what happens when you lose your job?The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London?As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between.But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . .

The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Alexa thought she was prepared to help him, and the whole family, to make the transition to normal life again - but no-one had told her how lonely and near impossible the task would be. Does marrying a soldier always have to mean that you are not marrying a man, but a regiment?

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position.

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.

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.

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Hvorfor vælger nogle kvinder at leve sammen med langt ældre mænd? Og hvorfor mener mændene selv, at de er heldige? Stedet er Oxford, England. Kvinderne er Kate og Julia. Mændene er de 25 år ældre venner, James og Hugh. Alt er tilsyneladende fredeligt og idyllisk – i såvel ægteskabet, som i det papirløse samliv. Men da James kommer til at køre ind i en ældre dame på cykel ved navn Beatrice Bachelor, bliver der vendt op og ned på alting.

Nathalie og David blev som børn adopteret af det samme forældrepar. De er født af to forskellige kvinder, men har gennem hele deres opvækst delt erfaringer som adoptivbørn. Som voksne bliver både Nathalie og David gift og får børn, og de føler sig som privilegerede og lykkelige mennesker, noget de i høj grad er blevet, fordi de har haft en tryg barndom og opvækst i deres kærlige familie. En dag sker der noget, som får Nathalie til at beslutte sig for at opsøge sin biologiske mor. Nathalie overtaler David til at gøre det samme, men hvor rigtig beslutningen end virker, skal det vise sig at være en kompliceret affære. Deres adoptivforældre, deres biologiske forældre og ikke mindst deres ægtefæller og børn ser fortvivlede og forskrækkede til. Nathalie og David spiller højt spil, men de indser det først, da det næsten er for sent.

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."Trollope er en mester i hverdagens drama – og det er vel og mærke et drama, der vil noget." – Bodil Steensen-Leth, Jyllands-PostenJoanna 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.

"Den spanske elsker" er en roman om de små beslutninger, der ændrer vores liv. Og det er en roman om mennesker, der tager tilværelsen op til revision og finder nye værdier. I "Den spanske elsker" møder vi tvillingerne Lizzie og Frances. Lizzie har ægteskab, fire børn og et hyggeligt lille landsbygalleri. Frances er karrierekvinden med den charmeforladte lejlighed i London, hende der er ude af stand til at indgå i et længerevarende forhold. Men så tager Frances på juleferie til Spanien og indleder en affære med den charmerende hotelejer Luis. Og i takt med at affæren udvikler sig, åbner den spanske elsker hendes øjne for de følelser, der altid har været Lizzies domæne.

Den engelske forfatter Joanna Trollope er fast overbevist om, at livet begynder ved de fyrre. Hun er fascineret af de øjeblikke i folks liv, hvor de pludselig gør det uventede. Hvor midaldrende mænd gør sig fri af deres roller, og hvor midaldrende kvinder springer ud af flasken og smider proppen væk. Et sådant øjeblik oplever Anna Bouverie i "Præstens kone". I tyve år har hun spillet andenviolin til sin mand, sognepræsten Peter, uden at kny. Hun har pligtskyldigt opført sig som det sømmer sig for en præstekone, hun har passet sin familie og hun har vendt og drejet hver en mønt og altid forsøgt at få det meste ud af sin mands kummerlige løn. Men en dag, da fremtidsudsigterne smuldrer for dem, gør Anna oprør.

Gina og Fergus, Laurence og Hilary. To almindelige, intelligente og rare middelklassepar, én datter, tre sønner, i årevis de bedste venner. Men da idyllen krakelerer hjemme hos Gina og Fergus, og Gina søger trøst hos Laurence og Hilary, er det mere end venskabet kan bære. 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."Man må være lavet af sten for ikke at blive indfanget af hendes personer, som enten vokser sig store i ulykken eller kalder på en sympatisk forståelse, fordi det, når det kommer til stykket, kun er menneskeligt at handle småligt og beregnende, når ens lykke eller solide tilværelse står på spil." – Katinka Bruhn, Weekendavisen

Lila er 21 år i 1938, da hun finder ud af, at hendes far har soldet hele familieformuen op. Hun får tilbudt et job på Malta med at passe en gammel villa, og slår straks til. På den smukke ø forelsker hun sig den unge Anton, og da han bliver indkaldt til krigen lover hun at vente på ham. Imens arbejder hun som sygeplejerske, men da der går længere og længere tid imellem hun hører fra sin elskede, begynder hun at tvivle. Og der er andre, der også er interesserede i hende...Caroline Harvey er et pseudonym for den kendte forfatter Joanna Trollope. Under navnet Joanna Trollope har hun skrevet mange, gode, moderne og underholdende kærlighedsromaner.OBS! Lydkvaliteten af indlæsningen er lavere end moderne standarder.