It’s been announced that best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82 at her Oxfordshire home.
Born in 1943 to the family of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope (she was his fifth-generation niece), writing was clearly in her blood and, after a short stint working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, she began penning historical romances under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey.
In 1987 she published The Choir, switching to contemporary fiction for the first time with hugely successful results and was a fixture in the best-seller charts for the rest of her hugely-productive writing career.
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Aside from selling millions of copies a number of her books have also been adapted for film and television, including The Rector's Wife, The Choir, A Village Affair and Other People's Children.
With so many books to choose from, it’s hard for a Joanna Trollope beginner to know where to start.
To help out, we’ve had a look at how the millions of readers of book website Goodreads have rated her books.
Here are the top 10.
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9. Next of Kin (1995)
Next of Kin, published in 1995, earns an average rating of 3.67 from 1,614 reviews. "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, and the whole family feels her loss acutely, none more so than her adopted daughter Judy. Into this unhappy family comes Zoe, Judy's London friend, an outsider with an independent spirit and a disturbing directness. Everyone underestimates Zoe's power as a catalyst for change as the realities behind the seeming idyll of a rural community become ever clearer..." | Contributed
10. Marrying the Mistress
Completing our list is 2000's Marrying the Mistress with an average rating of 3.64 from 3,697 reviews. "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. Up until now, Guy and Merrion have enjoyed a blissfully, uncomplicated relationship in stolen moments in Merrion's flat, and to the rest of the world, Guy has played the part of model husband, father and grandfather. 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. Yet he is quite unprepared for the storm that will follow." | Contributed