Rose Tremain
Autore di The Road Home
Sull'Autore
Rose Tremain was born in London, England on August 2, 1943. She has written several novels including The Way I Found Her, Merivel: A Man of His Time, and The American Lover. Restoration was adapted into a movie in 1995 and a stage production in 2009. She has won numerous awards including the James mostra altro Tait Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger for Sacred Country, the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award for Music and Silence, and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008 for The Road Home. She was made a CBE in 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Rose Tremain
The Beauty of the Dawn Shift 1 copia
My Wife is a White Russian 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 346 copie
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Thomson, Rosemary Jane (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1943-08-02
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Norwich, East Anglia, England, UK
Paris, France - Istruzione
- Crofton Grange School, England
The Sorbonne, Paris
University of East Anglia
Francis Holland School - Attività lavorative
- writer
author
novelist
creative writing teacher
Chancellor, University of East Anglia
screenwriter - Relazioni
- Holmes, Richard (Partner)
Tremain, Jon (ex-husband)
Dudley, Jonathan (ex-husband) - Organizzazioni
- University of East Anglia
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Commander)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature - Agente
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read, February 2019: The Colour in 1001 Books to read before you die (Marzo 2019)
Recensioni
Liste
Morphy Pick! (2)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 9,202
- Popolarità
- #2,607
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 412
- ISBN
- 436
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 43
We meet alcoholic Aramon, his lonely sister Audrun, who are Cevennes through and through. We meet long term English residents Veronica and her lover Kitty. And then we meet Anthony, Veronica's brother, who thinks he'd like to move to France.
All have secrets. All have lives that are in some ways unsatisfactory. And from the moment that Anthony arrives in France, a series of events, with unlooked for and utterly unwanted consequences is set in motion.
I was involved, even as I found each character in some way unlikeable - there are no dashing heroes and heroines here.
I believed in the lives of each of these characters, and wanted to know how the story would unfold. I relished the description of this part of the Cevennes. I read on willingly, enjoying the story, and how it was told.… (altro)