Tag Archives: Joanna Trollope

Jo Baker, “Longbourn”

Posted on October 22, 2013 by carolwallace

So how do you feel about all of these Jane Austen knockoffs? I was underwhelmed by Death Comes to Pemberley and won’t have anything to do with mashups and vampires. I  have been anticipating Joanna Trollope’s update on Sense and Sensibility with … Continue reading →

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Joanna Trollope, “The Soldier’s Wife”

Posted on April 23, 2013 by carolwallace

I always enjoy Joanna Trollope’s books, though I can’t usually tell them apart retrospectively. Is that a bad thing? It didn’t used to be. I imagine Trollope’s heyday featured legions of female readers — of a certain age, naturally — … Continue reading →

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Joanna Trollope, “Daughters-in-Law”

Posted on September 15, 2011 by carolwallace

Did I dream this? Wasn’t there a moment when Joanna Trollope’s books were best-sellers in the U.S.? I’ve certainly bought most of them, loaned them to friends, re-read them, enjoyed them mightily. So I was startled to find that Daughters-in-Law … Continue reading →

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Julia Glass, “The Widower’s Tale”

Posted on September 20, 2010 by carolwallace

Near the end of The Widower’s Tale, in a segment narrated by the widower of the title, he says, “I have always been an avid and fairly ecumenical reader of fiction: I relish the pretend, the invented, the convincingly contrived.” … Continue reading →

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Katharine Davis, “A Slender Thread”

Posted on September 11, 2010 by carolwallace

It’s a pretty good recipe for a novel: take a group of attractive characters, subject them to a new kind of pressure, and see what happens. Joanna Trollope has been writing versions of this book for years, and Julia Glass … Continue reading →

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Joanna Trollope, “The Other Family”

Posted on July 25, 2010 by carolwallace

You could say that Joanna Trollope writes the same book over and over again. (I exclude here the historical romances she writes as Caroline Harvey, which are very good of their kind.) You could complain about how they are always … Continue reading →

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Katharine Davis, “Capturing Paris”

Posted on June 20, 2010 by carolwallace

Spend a few hours in Paris without a plane ticket. Continue reading →

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Penelope Lively, “Consequences”

Posted on August 13, 2009 by carolwallace

Last time I read this book, Joanna Trollope had written it, and the title was Legacy of Love. Okay, I’m being flippant, but there is a Trollope book that links the love stories of three generations of women. And if … Continue reading →

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Thomas Perry, “Dance for the Dead”

Posted on July 19, 2009 by carolwallace

It’s books like this that I really need to blog about, just so that I can remember I read them. I love Thomas Perry, I think he’s brilliant at what he does and Dance for the Dead is one of … Continue reading →

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