The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels.
The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written * The Sunday Times *
I would have killed anyone who wrested this novel from my hands.. it's compulsive reading * The Times *
This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer * Daily Mail *
Like a Barbara Pym novel, though Joanna Trollope has a much stronger grasp than Pym on the tangled web of family life * The Times *
The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written * Sunday Telegraph *
I would have killed anyone who wrested this novel from my hands.. it's compulsive reading * The Times *
This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer * Daily Mail *
Like a Barbara Pym novel, though Joanna Trollope has a much stronger grasp than Pym on the tangled web of family life * The Times *
The portrayal of the petty frustrations of clerical life is spot on and the novel is elegantly written * Sunday Telegraph *
Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number of historical novels and Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire.
Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552994705 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552994707 |
| Titel | The Rector's Wife |
| Autor | Joanna Trollope |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1992-07-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 288 |
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