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About Joanna Trollope
See more books from this AuthorThe prolific Trollope (Next of Kin, 2001, etc.) spins another engaging tale about life‘s twists and turns, occasioned as much by character as circumstance, and the ways family ties both help and hinder.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthGirl from the South Joanna Trollope read by Emilia Fox Running time 3hrs Bloomsbury £8.99 What woman longing for marriage but faced with a partner like Henry, who is restless and doesn't want to marry her, thinks it would be a smart move to invite Gillon, an attractive loose cannon from South C...
Mar 03 2002 | Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthGirl from the South Joanna Trollope 311pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 You already know the chat on Joanna Trollope: the middle-class, middle-England novelist whose prolific output and steady popularity have made her a millionaire.
Feb 16 2002 | Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthAn admired English author of wryly intelligent family dramas, Trollope has never enjoyed a particularly wide American readership.
| Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthHenry's best friend's has his own interest in Tilly, adding romantic depth to the London side of things, and Gillon's idiosyncratic extended family, who open their hearts to Henry in ways enviable to Gillon, provide both a dramatic and comedic voluptuousness to the novel.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthWill is a loner and happy to be so but even he cannot fail to be touched and affected when weird kid, Marcus enters his life.
Aug 16 2011 | Read Full Review of Girl from the SouthIn exploring the differences between Tilly, Gillon and conventional Southern women, Trollope captures the choice that all modern women make-whether to take the easy path of fulfilling other people's expectations or the harder, more poorly marked trail of deciding what you expect of yourself.
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