Author Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82.
The bestselling author died peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire on Thursday, her daughters Antonia and Louise said.
Trollope was best known for her novels set in rural middle England and focused on domestic life and relationships, including The Rector’s Wife, Marrying The Mistress, Other People’s Children and Second Honeymoon.
Her literary agent James Gill said: “It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists.
“Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and – of course – her readers.”
Her writing was once dubbed Aga Sagas, a term which the author strongly disliked and described as “patronising”.
She previously told the Press Association: “That was a very unfortunate phrase and I think it’s done me a lot of damage.
“It was so patronising to the readers too.”
With over 40 novels to her name, her work tackled a range of topics from affairs, blended families and adoption, to parenting and marital breakdown.
In 1996, Trollope was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to literature and later made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019.
