On how people react to her characters in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)
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For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life.
— Joanna Trollope
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About Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope (December 9, 1943) is an English writer.