I wanted to write a novel about the sandwich generation: parents falling to pieces at one end of your life and children being quite demanding at the … - Joanna Trollope

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I wanted to write a novel about the sandwich generation: parents falling to pieces at one end of your life and children being quite demanding at the other. You, the woman, are probably working full-time, but society, which is really very old-fashioned, still expects women to do all the caring.

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About Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope (December 9, 1943) is an English writer.

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Alternative Names: Caroline Harvey
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