Bestselling author Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82, her bereft family revealed today.
Ms Trollope, nicknamed the ‘Queen of the Aga Saga’ due to her fiction about romance and intrigue in middle England, passed away at home in the Cotswolds.
Her most famous books include The Rector’s Wife, Marrying the Mistress, Daughters in Law and City of Friends.
In a statement, her daughters Louise and Antonia said: ‘Our beloved and inspirational mother Joanna Trollope has died peacefully at her Oxfordshire home, on 11th December aged 82.’
Her passing came days after Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic novels and another titan of popular women’s Fiction, died of a brain tumour aged 55.
