The Rector's Wife: a moving and compelling novel of sacrifice and self-discovery from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

Author: Trollope, Joanna

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Silver

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 01-05-1993

Details: Product Description
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items.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. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband.She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life ...
Review
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
From the Publisher
"This is Trollope's finest novel to date. Prepare to be wittily and wisely entertained by an exceptional writer."
-Carla McKay,
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
From the Inside Flap
ears Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife (9,000 pounds a year and a redbrick rectory that looked like a bus shelter) had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways.  She had organised the deanery suppers, made cakes for the Brownies' Easter Cake Bake, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices (not altogether perfectly according to Miss Dunstable), grown her own vegetables and clothed herself and her children in left-over jumble-sale items.

When her husband failed to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreated into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her younger daughter at the local comprehensive reached unendurable proportions, Anna suddenly rebelled.  Taking a job in the local supermarket she earned money, a sense of her own worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish, and the icy fury of her husband.

As her loneliness and isolation increased, she was observed with passionate interest by three significant men, each of
About the Author
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.

EAN: 9780552994705

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English