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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Loffhagen

Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82

Joanna Trollope
‘It is a grave mistake to think there is more significance in great things than in little things’ … Joanna Trollope. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

British novelist Joanna Trollope, whose portrayals of British domestic life made her one of the nation’s most widely read authors, has died at the age of 82.

Trollope published more than 30 novels during a writing career that began in 1980. Her early works, written under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey, were historical romances, but from the mid-1980s onward, she turned to contemporary fiction, a shift that would define her reputation.

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