Two sisters could hardly be more different.

Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere as she dreams of going to art school.

But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years, their values are severely put to the test.

Can Elinor remain stoic knowing that the man she likes has been ensnared by another girl? Will Marianne’s faith in love be shaken by meeting the hottest boy in the county? And when social media is the controlling force at play, can love ever triumph over conventions and disapproval?

Joanna Trollope casts Sense & Sensibility in a fresh new light, re-telling a coming-of-age story about young love and heartbreak, and how when it comes to money especially, some things never change…

Sense & Sensibility, by Joanna Trollope, read by Rachael Stirling

Joanna Trollope spoke to us this morning about her modern take on Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility - the first book in The Austen Project...The novelist told us about her first experience of Austen's work, why she was so thrilled to be asked to re-interpret her characters for a modern audience, and how she hopes the project will ultimately lead readers to read "the sacred six"...





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Joanna Trollope At The Cheltenham Literature Festival

The best selling writer Joanna Trollop talks about why she writes and the inspiration behind her hit books. 

Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction.  She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today.

For all her novels, Joanna undertakes meticulous research, involving huge amounts of interviewing and travel – often on foot or by public transport, of which she is an enthusiastic fan. 

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Writing, the devil's in the detail - Joanna Trollope

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Should we take Anthony Trollope seriously? Are Barchester Towers, Phineas Finn and The Way We Live Now comfort reading for addicts of the heritage industry and TV costume drama, or is Trollope up there with Dickens, Hardy and the Brontës: exponents of the Victorian novel at its most incisively original?

Was Trollope the victim of his own indefatigable industry and dedication to his craft? And what does he have to say to 21st-century readers? In an event marking the bicentenary of his birth, and chaired by the biographer and novelist Jonathan Keates, MP and historian Kwasi Kwarteng, poet Michael Symmons Roberts and novelist Joanna Trollope examine his reputation, his surprising narrative range and his often audacious and strikingly humane treatment of controversial themes and characters. Choosing their own favourites from the Trollopean canon, the panel considers whether Leo Tolstoy was right when he exclaimed, 'Trollope kills me, kills me with his genius.'

What's so great about Trollope?

Author of 20 bestselling books, including A Village Affair and The Rector’s Wife, Joanna Trollope joined Róisín Ingle for the Róisín Meets podcast this week. 

Joanna spoke candidly about the literary snobbery she has been on the receiving end of in the past, and why it doesn't bother her. She also talked about why, at the age of 73, she has no intention of quitting writing and how there are big advantages to finding success later in life.

Also on the podcast, Joanna spoke about growing up in the Cotswolds, wanting to look like Jane Fonda and her friend, the late Maeve  Binchy.

Joanna Trollope

Listen to an extra of City of Friends, the twentieth novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Joanna Trollope. Read by Adjoa Andoh.

She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from Steve reading with uncharacteristic imperiousness, 'Call me.' She couldn't. She couldn't call anyone . . . She leaned forward, gripping the edge of the bench, and stared at the ground. God, she thought, am I losing my mind? Is this what happens when you lose your job?

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London?

As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements  or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between.

But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . .

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City Of Friends - Joanna Trollope

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