Joanna Trollope, bestselling British novelist, dies at 82

British author Joanna Trollope, who achieved success with her family sagas set in the heart of rural England, has died at age 82, her family announced Friday. Joanna Trollope, a distant descendant of the famous and prolific Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, was the author of around forty books, some written under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.

Ses romans, dont Someone else’s children, His sons’ wives or A familychronicle the relationships and events in the lives of middle-class families in the English countryside. It’s about adoption, divorce and blended families.

His death, at his home in Oxfordshire (central England), was announced by his two daughters. “It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most loved, acclaimed and appreciated novelists”said his agent James Gill.

Its publisher at Pan Macmillan, paid tribute to an author “spiritual, wise and empathetic”.“She leaves us all a wonderful legacy of gripping and insightful social observations, having described family dynamics with warmth, intelligence and a keen sense of human frailties”he declared, quoted by the magazine The Bookseller. In 2019, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the late Queen Elizabeth II, for service to literature.