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Faith
- GenresShort StoriesFiction
30 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Joanna Trollope
132 books607 followersJoanna Trollope Potter Curteis (aka Caroline Harvey)
Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001.
From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001.
From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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February 8, 2024
An extremely short, 30 pages, small book about a woman who inherits a country bookstore from her mother, in Washington state.
In the process of clearing it out and cleaning it up and re-arranging things to more suit her style, she comes across some papers and other stuff and so learns about her father (and mother) and grandfather and their broken dreams.
We often learn most or at least much more than we knew about people close to us only when they go, when they are no longer here. Something similar happens as we grow older. Try having a son long after your own father has gone, you'll know what I mean.
In the process of clearing it out and cleaning it up and re-arranging things to more suit her style, she comes across some papers and other stuff and so learns about her father (and mother) and grandfather and their broken dreams.
We often learn most or at least much more than we knew about people close to us only when they go, when they are no longer here. Something similar happens as we grow older. Try having a son long after your own father has gone, you'll know what I mean.
December 13, 2019
A bittersweet vignette. Despite the brevity of the book, I managed to be swept into the emotions of the author, which she describes succinctly, to great effect. Also cool cuz it's local to my hometown!
February 13, 2018
Brilliant. This is a short book I finished over lunch. It is a story beautifully told.
December 21, 2023
Short but impactful.
June 7, 2024
A Bloomsbury Quid
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February 13, 2017
Gorgeous little read. Compact, inspiring and well-written.
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October 21, 2007http://nhw.livejournal.com/893645.html[return][return]A very short story, published as a separate book by Bloomsbury, about forgiveness and redemption across three generations of the same family. Told in Trollope's usual lucid prose.
June 6, 2013
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