The Rector's Wife: a moving and compelling novel of sacrifice and self-discovery from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

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For all her novels, Joanna undertakes meticulous research, involving huge amounts of interviewing and travel – often on foot or by public transport, of which she is an enthusiastic fan. ‘ The research varies from book to book, but it always includes talking to people who have known, or are in, the situation I am concerned with—in the case of one particular book ( it was “The Other Family”), bereavement and living with what seems an unjust will. People are wonderfully generous about talking to me—maybe because I’m not a journalist? — and often seem almost relieved to be able express their intimate feelings openly.’

So this goes on, Anna stretches herself thin, she wants to work at the shop, but she gets very angry when the interfering old biddies of the parish step in to do the jobs she hates - church stuff, hosting meals, preparing meals etc. She can't actually manage it all, but she'll be damned if she's going to give up her job. She then promptly goes off and has an affair with the brother of the new archdeacon (who stole Peter's promotion). 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.” I am not English so I am sure that I lost something in translation in terms of understanding the intricacies of the Church of England and how the whole Church hierarchy is arranged. I certainly looked up a lot of British words in my dictionary. My favorite was OAP (old-age pensioner). On 14 May 1966, [3] Trollope married a city banker, David Roger William Potter; the couple had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, divorcing in 1983. [2] [10] In 1985, she married the television dramatist Ian Curteis and became a stepmother of his two sons; she and Curteis divorced in 2001. After her second divorce, Trollope moved to West London. [6] She is a grandmother. [4] [21] Anna Bouverie is married to Peter, the rector of a small parish in the south of England (made up and not entirely sure where exactly but somewhere near Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire I think). As the book starts, we learn that Anna's youngest daughter, Flora, is being bullied at the local primary school and that Peter was going for a big promotion to Archdeacon, but he hasn't got it.

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a b Das, Lina (13 May 2017). "Joanna Trollope: My marriage breakdown was a relief – I could tell people I was in turmoil". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 23 March 2019. Trollope appeared on a 1994 edition of Desert Island Discs. Trollope remarked that men often suggested her books were trivial, to which she liked to respond: "It is a grave mistake to think there is more significance in great things than in little things", paraphrasing Virginia Woolf. [22] [23] Bibliography [ edit ] As Joanna Trollope [24] [ edit ] Some of Joanna Trollope's historical novels are re-edited as Caroline Harvey** Historical novels [ edit ]

It also surprised me to see Anna give in when Peter went to Pricewell's and told the manager that Anna was resigning. This seemed to me more likely to occur in the 1950's than the 1990's. For the past two decades, the Bouveries have served God and their parish in a myriad of ways. As minister of his congregation, Peter Bouverie has always written such powerful sermons, preached to the faithful, and counselled so many troubled couples. Everyone in the tiny parish of Loxford also knows of the rector's wife Anna - she is so dutiful, organized, prayerful, and self-possessed. In fact, Anna Bouverie is nothing if not absolutely perfect for the position - she is the quintessential minister's wife.

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Gibbons, Fiachra (30 May 2003). "Queens of the bonkbuster and Aga saga defend the art - and heart - of their fiction". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 March 2019.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Joanna Trollope CBE ( / ˈ t r ɒ l ə p/ TROL-əp; born 9 December 1943) is an English writer. She has also written under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. [1] Biography [ edit ] Early life [ edit ] Very few writers who could be said to be prophets, true inventors, What most of us are is interpreters, translators. We take the old human truths that Shakespeare and Sophocles described inimitably, and we re-interpret them for our own times, in our own voices, coloured by as it were, our own messages to the world. She has written the first novel in Harper Collins updating of the Jane Austen canon, The Austen Project. Her version of "Sense and Sensibility" was published in October 2013 with limited success.Her father was of the same family as the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope; she is his fifth-generation niece, [7] and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. Of inheriting the name, she has said: Friday Nights: Heather Thompson of The Guardian called Friday Nights "a light but insightful look at a rather conventional cast of characters." [19]

Joanna devotes a considerable amount of time to supporting her chosen charities and in particular those associated with literacy. She says: ‘I’m really saddened by the abiding shame that accompanies not being able to read and write properly – and cheered by the real joy that comes with learning to do both. I thought that the resolution of the story with a car crash killing Peter made sense. I could see that the gossip conveyed by Ella might have been the last straw for him. Not that he actively courted suicide, but when the opportunity presented itself, he decided to act.

a b International who's who of authors and writers, Volumen 23, Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group Hyear=2008 Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. [2] [3] Her father was an Oxford University classics graduate who became head of a small building society. Her mother was an artist and writer. [4] Her father was away for war service in India when she was born; he returned when she was three. The family settled in Reigate, Surrey. Trollope has a younger brother and sister. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls, [5] gaining scholarship to St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1961. She read English. [6] a b c Bedell, Geraldine (27 June 1993). "Gloucestershire Chronicles". The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022 . Retrieved 24 March 2019.