Category Archives: Trollope, Joanna

Recent Reading: Romance, Reykjavik, and Relatives

Posted on August 16, 2015 by

In among my other recent chores and challenges I’ve read a few things chosen primarily for their likely distraction value. I don’t have a whole post’s worth of comments on any of them but I thought I’d round them up … Continue reading →

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Family Drama: Balancing Act and Parenthood

Posted on July 26, 2015 by

Both my reading and my TV viewing this week have been all about the intricacies of family life. Joanna Trollope’s Balancing Act is a classic “slice of life novel” — classic Joanna Trollope, anyway. I haven’t liked Trollope’s recent novels as … Continue reading →

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Joanna Trollope, A Village Affair

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

From the Novel Readings Archives. Writing about Rosy Thornton’s The Tapestry of Love got me thinking about other examples of intelligent ‘women’s fiction’ (which I would say is the thinking person’s alternative to ‘chick lit’: readable but insightful stories about … Continue reading →

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Monica Ali, Brick Lane

Posted on July 28, 2007 by

I really enjoyed this novel and the things it made me think about. Although in some ways this seems like the wrong context in which to consider it (at any rate, there are others more or equally relevant), I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Joanna Trollope, A Village Affair

Posted on June 15, 2007 by

When I decided to take a break from more “serious” reading with A Village Affair, I wasn’t really expecting the novel to reach towards the serious itself. I had read it before, but what I had retained was admiration for … Continue reading →

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