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Despite several bestsellers earning her the adoration of millions of fans, the beloved author and acute observer of ordinary life long faced scorn from the literary elite
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Hear the nickname “Queen of the Aga Saga” and you might expect an author who specialises in cookbooks or frothy stories set in the kitchen – but Joanna Trollope, who has died aged 82, was nothing of the sort, with books that tackled everything from divorce and empty-nest syndrome to bereavement and self-harm with compassion and honesty.
