Why novelist Joanna Trollope is happier living alone

She’s often written about the complications of domestic relationships and it’s not always plain sailing.  So it’s perhaps not surprising that best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope shows a certain knowing level of psychological independence when talking about herself.
Twice married but single for the past 20 years, the writer they call the Queen of the Aga Saga - a term she apparently loathes -  has told the Mail that she long ago gave up the idea that need a man in her life. That she’s taken herself ‘off the market’ and she loves living alone What’s more she reckons the past two decades have been the happiest of her life.
The 76-year-old author of 22 novels who is also a popular speaker on the Clive Conway Productions circuit, is currently promoting her latest book, Mum and Dad, originally published into a world of lockdown earlier this year and now due out in paperback.
The  book tells the story of Gus and Monica who abandoned England 25 years ago to build a new life in southern Spain, starting a vineyard and a wine business. Then Gus, in his early 70s, has a sudden stroke, and his and Monica’s three adult children have to ride to the rescue. As these children descend on the bodega, each one has a different view of both the situation and its solution. Age-old resentments surface, aggravated by new and unbearable tensions. Can the family, as a family, ever survive?
Hopefully Clive Conway Productions followers will be able to hear Joanna herself talking about the book, her career and life when she appears in An Audience with Joanna Trollope at Loughborough Town Hall on  29th March, 2021. More info at www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk

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