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T - Joanna Trollope
One great
lady, Joanna Trollope (actually to be honest all ladies introduced during this
A-Z Challenge are amazing! How fast time passes, already almost at the end of
the alphabet)
Joanna
Trollope was born in Gloucestershire in 1943 so has always felt the Cotswolds
was her real "home" giving her a sense of rootedness and the capacity
to value the rich life of smaller communities.
She became
a full time author in 1980 and is enormously successful, her first number one
best seller, the Rector's Wife made her a household name and several of her
novels have been adapted for television including The Choir and A Village
Affair. Joanna was awarded the OBE in 1996 for Services to Literature.
One
initiative which I found admirable was her attempt to save Gloucestershire's
libraries and she mentioned that she thinks that local book shops are still
relevant because:
It's news
to me that more people shop online for books than shop physically. If you know
what you want it seems to me that shopping online is efficient and probably
cheaper but if you are browsing for choice the physical presence of books seems
to me abidingly important and attractive.
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