British writer Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82.

British writer Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82. This was announced on December 12 by the novelist's family.

"Our beloved and inspiring mother Joanna Trollope passed away peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire on December 11 at the age of 82," The Times newspaper quoted the family as saying.

The cause of the writer's death is not specified.

The novelist was born in 1943 in Gloucestershire. She graduated from Oxford University in 1961, after which she worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1965 to 1967, where she studied Eastern Europe, as well as relations between China and developing countries. Then, until 1979, she worked as a teacher.

However, Trollope soon began to develop her writing career. Later, she became the author of novels about everyday life in the provinces. Among her popular works were "The Rector's Wife", "Eugene on the Mistress", "Daughters-in-Law" and "City of Friends".

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