The Soldier's Wife

With her stories about the tensions of middle-class families, Trollope consistently picks women's-page issues. In The Soldier's Wife, she continues to explore the power balance in relationships and whether it's possible to be happy if we subjugate our desires to someone else

Independent

Written with all Trollope's customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum

Daily Mail

Nobody understands the snags and frustrations of family life better than Joanna Trollope. She also captures the dangerous pressure points in relationships, the steady build-up of tension, the exact moment when the family fur might really start to fly

Sunday Express

Trollope is on top form, hitting the zeitgeist with this perceptive and compassionate inside story of an army marriage

Woman & Home

The Soldier's Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true... compassionate, humourous and topical

Spectator

Trollope is always immensely readable, managing to depict characters' inner turmoil with deft, artful simplicity. Here, she brings her emotionally acute eye to bear on army life

Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror

First-rate storytelling

Kati Nicholl, Daily Express

A thoughtful, even challenging, writer

Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday

As always, Joanna Trollope sucks you into the story; as always, she pins people's emotions with deft details.

Evening Standard