Can You Forgive Her?

Nov 3, 2025 5:28 PM

Author:Anthony Trollope

Published in 1864, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? was the first volume in what turned out to be the Palliser sequence of six political novels, serialized on television some years ago. It is in this book that we first meet Plantagenet Palliser, later to become Duke of Omnium, but the forces of attention concerns two women and their lovers: Lady Glencora and Alice Vavasour. Trollope wonderfully contrasts their private dramas with the public excitements of politics in a book which has all the breadth and scope of the best nineteenth-century epics.

Reviews

This deliciously funny novel had me laughing out loud

—— Woman and Home

A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read

—— Observer

A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship

—— New York Times

A pleasure from start to finish

—— Guardian

Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry

—— Penelope Mortimer , Daily Telegraph

Andric possess the rare gift in a historical novelist of creating a period-piece, full of local colour, and at the same time characters who might have been living today

—— Times Literary Supplement

Just as the bridge on the Drina brought East and West together so your work has acted as a link, combining the culture of your country with other parts of the planet

—— Göran Liljestrand, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member

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