The Soldier's Wife

Written with all Trollope’s customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum * Daily Mail *
Nobody understands the snags and frustrations of family life better than Joanna Trollope. She also captures the dangerous pressure points in relationships, the steady build-up of tension, the exact moment when the family fur might really start to fly * Sunday Express *
Trollope is on top form, hitting the zeitgeist with this perceptive and compassionate inside story of an army marriage * Woman & Home *
The Soldier’s Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true… compassionate, humourous and topical * Spectator *
Trollope is always immensely readable, managing to depict characters’ inner turmoil with deft, artful simplicity. Here, she brings her emotionally acute eye to bear on army life – Henry Sutton * Daily Mirror *
With her stories about the tensions of middle-class families, Trollope consistently picks women’s-page issues. In The Soldier’s Wife, she continues to explore the power balance in relationships and whether it’s possible to be happy if we subjugate our desires to someone else * Independent *
First-rate storytelling – Kati Nicholl * Daily Express *
A thoughtful, even challenging, writer – Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
As always, Joanna Trollope sucks you into the story; as always, she pins people’s emotions with deft details. * Evening Standard *

Joanna Trollope is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed bestselling novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. Born in Gloucestershire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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