Joanna Trollope Boeken

Twintig jaar lang had Anna Bouverie, de vrouw van de predikant, God en de parochie op vele manieren gediend. Zij had koekjes gebakken voor de jaarlijkse wedstrijd, kerkblaadjes rondgebracht, het huishouden gedaan en zichzelf en de kinderen in tweedehands kleding gestoken. Wanneer haar echtgenoot zijn promotie misloopt en zich verbitterd in zichzelf terugtrekt, en als het verzet van haar jongste dochter ondraaglijke vormen aanneemt, komt Anna ineens in opstand. Ze neemt een baantje als cassière bij de plaatselijke supermarkt om in ieder geval het gevoel te hebben zelf geld te verdienen. hetgeen in het dorp een schok teweeg brengt. Terwijl zij steeds meer geisoleerd raakt in het dorp én in haar gezin, wordt Anna met toenemende belangstelling gadegeslagen door drie bijzondere mannen, die ieder een rol zullen spelen in haar leven. Joanna Trollope beschrijft de onderstroom en dynamiek binnen een gemeenschap die te maken krijgt met een vrouw die niet in de rol blijft die haar werd toebedacht.

Twee geadopteeerde dertigers met ieder een eigen gezin hebben nog steeds vragen over hun afkomst en gaan op zoek naar hun biologische moeders.

Alice is 38 and has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy, but he isn't. Instead she feels that she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret that is never spoken of in the she can't read. Now timid, quiet Alice must start out on her own brave journey, and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy.

1988--As the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellious, and longing for excitement. Throwing away all the privileges that could have been his, he enlisted as a trooper--only to find himself loving the beautiful war-torn country of Africa and finally falling in love with a girl on the enemy side. Will Marriott, his cousin, was an officer who believed in England's greatness and the glory of battle. But as his comrades were maimed and killed, as he himself was wounded, and then betrayed by a one-time friend, so his values began to change. The one thing that never changed was his love for Frances, Matthew Paget's sister. Hendon Bashford was an upstart social climber, a swindler and a cheat. Half English, half Boer, he owed allegiance to no one while creating havoc in the lives of more honourable men. As the passage of war unfolded, so the lives of these three young men, and women they loved, moved towards a tumultuous climax.

When pianist Richie Rossiter suddenly dies from a heart attack, his three teenage daughters discover their parents were never married despite 23 years together. Facing inheritance tax, house sales, and job searches, their mother Chrissie struggles. Only 17-year-old Amy navigates these new realities, reaching out to her half-brother and inspiring her family to embrace a fresh start.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems. The selfish, difficult but heart-stoppingly beautiful daughter of a failed tea-planter in India devoted herself to pleasure. But when her father was sent to Burma, and she had to accompany him, she became embroiled in an exotic world of political intrigue. Her friendship with the Queen - a dangerous and unpredictable figure - and her growing closeness to Archie Tennant, a young man who has come east to seek his fortune after the ruin of his family business, brought her both danger and the key to her destiny.

A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very different backgrounds.

The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land and sent their sons to war (and even, latterly, to commerce) in a way of life that seemed timeless. But in 1870 a new generation is about to take control - Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive, deeply caring about his inheritance, and his sister Catherine, intelligent, humorous, but frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man's world. Tom marries, and agricultural depression hits the estate. And suddenly it seems that everything which was so secure can no longer hold. Stretching in time from the 1870s to the outbreak of the second world war, and in distance from Crete to East Africa, this warmly satisfying novel is a triumph of storytelling.