Joanna Trollope, Author Viking Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-88518-3
As readers might surmise, even when she writes under a pseudonym and chooses an exotic setting, Trollope is not one to succumb to the conventions of a standard romantic novel. In this first of her historical novels to be published here, Trollope/Harv
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Joanna Trollope. Pan Macmillan, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5098-2351-2
In Trollope’s lighthearted contemporary, a divorced 64-year-old grandmother discovers love again, but her family isn’t so thrilled. Rose Woodrowe is enjoying a pleasant if uneventful life, living in a mews house in London and working as a medical...
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Rebecca H. Jamison. Cedar Fort, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-220046-4
In this funny, well-paced Mormon-themed take on Austen's often retold classic, by romance writer Jamison (Persuasion: A Latter-day Tale), Emma is a 23-year-old receptionist in modern-day Vienna, Va., who tries to parlay her penchant for meddling and
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Joanna Trollope. Simon & Schuster, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7251-0
In Trollope's dull newest (after Daughters-in-Law), British Army Major Dan Riley has just returned home from a six-month stay in Afghanistan. His wife, Alexa, has been holding down the fort, juggling young twins and an older daughter, Isabel, who is
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Joanna Trollope, Touchstone, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1838-9
Short on plot but long on emotion, Trollope's latest (after The Other Family) is a straightforward take on the ways we shape and reshape our idea of family. Though her three sons are grown and married, Rachel is unwilling to let go of her role at...
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Joanna Trollope, Author Random House (NY) $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-42586-1
Stepping away from her usual provinces and into more cosmopolitan territory, Trollope (The Choir; The Rector's Wife) delivers an insightful and thoroughly engrossing story of 39-year-old twin sisters whose lives and fortunes change dramatically over
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Joanna Trollope, Author Random House (NY) $20 (248p) ISBN 978-0-679-42587-8
The men in this delightfully sage novel of domesticity by bestselling British author Trollope ( The Rector's Wife ) are lifelong friends Hugh and James--each 60-ish, sexy, appealing. The ``girls''--Julia and Kate--are a fair bit younger. Hugh, a...
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Joanna Trollope, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-039102-7
In this readable, emotionally nuanced novel, Trollope ( The Choir ) depicts a young wife and mother who gets what she wants--the perfect house in Pitcombe, a perfect village in England. But instead of being overjoyed, Alice is depressed until she...
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Joanna Trollope, Author Viking Books $23.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-670-89150-4
In her latest tale, about a May-December romance and its effects on the individuals and families involved, Trollope again displays her extraordinary gift for representing the intricacies of familial relationships and the vicissitudes of domestic...
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Among bestselling British author Trollope's enviable skills are her ability to create characters with believable flaws, and to ponder plausible life situations in which the best possible outcome is merely pragmatic, rather than romantic, and...
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Joanna Trollope, Author Viking Books $23.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-670-88513-8
A skilled artisan of nuance and insight reveals a vigorous new edge as she explores the painful and contentious arena of stepfamilies. Here Trollope focuses on three women and two men who wrestle with new family configurations, along with their six...
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Joanna Trollope, Author Random House (NY) $22 (261p) ISBN 978-0-679-44454-1
As in the music that pervades the plot of Trollope's (The Rector's Wife) absorbing novel, contrapuntal technique results in a brilliant composition. Like her ancestor Anthony, Trollope focuses on an English cathedral town and its dissonant voices....
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Joanna Trollope, Author . Touchstone $15 (321p) ISBN 978-1-4391-2983-8
An unexpected line in a will leads to complications and new beginnings in Trollope’s eminently readable latest (after Friday Nights
). The novel opens outside London with the sudden death of Richie Rossiter, a once-popular pianist whose star...
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Joanna Trollope, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (330p) ISBN 978-1-59691-407-0
When a British retiree invites two young single mothers from the neighborhood to her flat, a Friday night tradition begins. As their klatch widens, Trollope's memorable characters do more than just represent varying female predicaments: they...
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Joanna Trollope, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-59691-038-6
Over 16 novels, Trollope has explored a plethora of the modern family's permutations; her 17th is a tender, funny ode to empty nest syndrome. Edie Boyd is a middle-aged, part-time actress and London mother of three whose youngest is packing up...
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Joanna Trollope, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58234-400-3
As she has done adroitly in her previous novels (Marrying the Mistress
, etc.), Trollope explores the unforeseen consequences of life-altering decisions, here telling the story of two adult adoptees who set out to find the mothers who gave them away.
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Joanna Trollope, Author . Viking $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-03097-2
An admired English author of wryly intelligent family dramas, Trollope has never enjoyed a particularly wide American readership. This very likable novel, which features a protagonist from South Carolina involved with an English visitor, might...
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Caroline Harvey, Author, Joanna Trollope, Author, Joanna Trollope, Joint Author Viking Books $24.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-89181-8
In a trio of linked novellas, Trollope--under her historical-novel pseudonym Caroline Harvey (The Brass Dolphin)--follows the romances of three adventurous women. Spirited, flirtatious Charlotte Brent, deathly bored with life in the countryside of...
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Joanna Trollope. Pan Macmillan, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5290-0338-3
Sudden illness impacts three generations of a family in Trollope’s rewarding latest (after An Unsuitable Match). British expats Gus and Monica Beacham have run a successful vineyard in southern Spain since 1993. When a stroke leaves Gus temporarily...
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