She has been dubbed the ‘Queen of the Aga Saga’, thanks
to her tales of middle-class romance.
Joanna Trollope said that it is becoming increasingly for
common for women to become the breadwinners within a family
But it seems that Joanna Trollope may have to re-think
the plot-lines of her popular novels from now on, if her thoughts on modern
gender roles are anything to go by.
The 70-year-old author said that it is becoming
increasingly for common for women to become the breadwinners within a family,
and claiming that she frequently meets men who tell her they were glad to be
able to give up work and become carers for their young children.
Miss Trollope said that she interviewed many men in the
30s and 40s while researching her novels, and was astonished at how many are
now out-earned by their partners.
Speaking at the Cambridge Literary Festival, she said:
‘The statistic is that above 25 per cent of working women in the UK
