Joanna Trollope will be at the Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday 21st May 2022

Joanna Trollope will be taking part in the Stafford Literature Festival for a vivid and fascinating discussion of her work.

Joanna has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commentators writing fiction today. 

Born in her grandfather’s rectory in the Cotswold village of Minchinhampton in December 1943, Joanna says: ‘Being born somewhere with a strong local sense, like the Cotswolds, gave me not just a sense of rootedness, but a capacity to value landscape and weather and the accessible richness of community life.”

After winning a scholarship to Oxford University, Joanna joined the Foreign Office and then became a teacher of English. She began writing ‘to fill the long spaces after the children had gone to bed’ and for many years combined her writing career with working as a teacher.  

Joanna’s first books to be published were a number of historical novels under the name Caroline Harvey. These were followed by Britannia’s Daughters, a historical study of women in the British Empire and more recently, her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. The Choir was Joanna’s first contemporary novel, followed by A Village Affair and A Passionate Man. The Rector’s Wife, first published in 1991, was Joanna’s first number one bestseller, and made her into a household name. Since then, she has written nineteen more bestselling contemporary novels.

Trollope's mastery of the family saga means this tightly plotted tale makes for a thoughtful, absorbing read - Daily Mail

She is now the author of over 20 highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress, Daughters in Law, City of Friends, and Mum & Dad.’

"Daughters-in-Law is most successful in its set-pieces... Trollope uses her undoubtedly brilliant observational powers to illuminate brightly the absurdities of modern English life." - The Independent (UK)

Venue: Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

Date: Saturday 21st May 2022

Booking Link: https://staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk/seats/?book=joanna-trollope&date=2022-05-21T19:30:00