Obituary: Joanna Trollope, ovelist crowned ‘queen of the Aga saga’ for her tales of bourgeois angst

Joanna Trollope, who has died aged 82, became a standard-bearer for middlebrow readers in the 1990s with a series of sharply observed novels of village life that led her to be crowned “queen of the Aga saga”, an accolade she disliked intensely.