By 1980, Joanna became a full-time author. She began writing ‘to fill the long spaces after the children had gone to bed’ and for many years combined her writing career with working as a teacher. But, I was very well taught, however, and I think I sensed this, even then.’Īfter winning a scholarship to Oxford University, Joanna joined the Foreign Office and then became a teacher of English. No school can be blamed, however, it was more my childhood and adolescent sense of being an outsider, of not belonging (a very formative sense, I now know, for being a writer) that made me miserable at a time when 99.9% of children long to conform. ‘I only really started to enjoy education when I got to university. Joanna spent her school days in Surrey, but by her own admission, Joanna is not someone who loved her schooldays. She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today.īorn in her grandfather’s rectory in the Cotswold village of Minchinhampton in December 1943, Joanna says: ‘Being born somewhere with a strong local sense, like the Cotswolds, gave me not just a sense of rootedness, but a capacity to value landscape and weather and the accessible richness of community life.” Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction.
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