Creative streak: Joanna Trollope

Trollope has written more than 20 novels and, at 73, still finds solace in her work

Joanna Trollope Pic: Fergal Phillips

There’s precious little that could put Joanna Trollope off her stride, you’d imagine. The British author has published 20 novels under her own name, sold millions of books worldwide and become something of an institution as the creator of so-called ‘Aga Saga’ novels, traditional works such as A Village Affair and The Rector’s Wife that deal in a clear-eyed and smart manner with domestic events that matter in people’s lives.

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