Susan Hill Susan Hill

Unhelpful issues

It would not have been so easy to describe what Joanna Trollope’s early novels were ‘about’ in a few words, but recently she has been writing what the Americans call ‘issue books’, and they can be more readily encapsulated.

issue 13 February 2010

  • The Other Family

    Joanna Trollope

    Transworld, pp. 336

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