Joanna Trollope, the celebrated English novelist whose 'Aga Sagas' chronicled the complexities of modern middle-class life with astute insight, died on December 11, 2025, at the age of 82. A distant relative of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, she carved out her own significant literary niche.

Her bestsellers, such as 'The Rector's Wife' and 'A Village Affair', explored themes of family, infidelity, and social change in rural England. Trollope had a unique gift for dissecting relationships and the quiet dramas of domesticity, earning her a loyal following and an OBE for her services to literature. She also notably wrote a contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'.

Trollope passed away in Oxfordshire. She leaves behind a rich body of work that captured the shifting social fabric of her time.