Some of her books are fine, in the genre called "Aga Sagas!" but I was disappointed in "Marrying the Mistress" and gave it a poor review on Amazon many years ago! I won't spoil it for you by mentioning what annoyed me about it!

Thanks Annpann.......
I guess what I am enjoying about this book is her writing style.

The story has taken a rather strange turn now and I'm not certain where she is going with it !

I've liked her books very much, though I haven't read anything by her recently. I think she has a very nice style, and a knack for describing homely details and conversations that I find true to life and that really warm up the story. I liked The Pastor's Wife and Daughters-in-Law, the others have faded a bit from my memory.

yoyo, I would agree with Sheri, Trollope is very good at family/domestic issues and shows great sympathy for her younger characters . .. divorcing parents, troubles at home, teenage angst etc. Of course all her characters are nicely 'middle-class', though how even they are able to afford Agas these days is surprising. Her books are certainly a change from all those 'Lily From Liverpool tales that fill the paperback shelves.

I liked The Other Family very much.

I'm a fan of Joanna Trollope's fiction. I enjoyed The Best of Friends, The Brass Dolphin, A Spanish Lover, Other People's Children, Friday Nights, and Daughters-in-Law but was less enthusiastic about Marrying the Mistress, which seemed overloaded with characters.

Her stories have a way of rising well above the level of the ordinary in their plot and characters and becoming thought-provoking.

JW, re "Marrying the Mistress" that was a problem for me too. When it was published , I read and then reviewed the book (as I mentioned earlier) and said that I was confused about who were supposed to be the central characters.
I was also critical of the author stating that married women were not able to work in the time when the judges wife married which was why she gave up her career and stayed home.
Rubbish!
Plenty of women worked and continued careers in the 1950s and 1960s, around the time when I think the marriage took place.