I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

Biography


Personal life
Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton Gloucestershire England daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. On 14 May 1966 Joanna Trollope married the banker David Roger William Potter they had two daughters Antonia and Louise and on 1983 they divorced. I admire him hugely both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception".

Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. 9 December 1943 in Minchinhampton Gloucestershire England) is a British writer.