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Rose Tremain

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Life should be embraced like a lover.


— Rose Tremain


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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.


— Rose Tremain


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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.


— Rose Tremain


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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.


— Rose Tremain


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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.


— Rose Tremain


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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.


— Rose Tremain


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About Rose Tremain






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Writing
Her influences include William Golding author of Lord of the Flies and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel 100 Years of Solitude and the magical realism style. Her story was publiRose Tremaind in the 'Earth' collection. Awards and honors
2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist Merivel: A Man of His Time
2008 Orange Prize The Road Home
1999 Whitbread Award Music and Silence
1994 Prix Femina Étranger Sacred Country
1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Sacred Country
1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Restoration
1984 Giles Cooper Award Temporary Shelter (play)


Selected bibliography


Novels
Sadler's Birthday (1976) ISBN 0-356-08387-X
Letter to Sister Benedicta (1978) ISBN 0-354-04353-6
The Cupboard (1981) ISBN 0-354-04769-8
Journey to the Volcano (1985) ISBN 0-241-11651-1
The Swimming Pool Season (1985) ISBN 0-241-11496-9
Restoration (1989) ISBN 0-241-12695-9
Sacred Country (1992) ISBN 1-85619-118-4
The Way I Found Her (1997) ISBN 1-85619-409-4
Music and Silence (1999) ISBN 1-86056-027-X
The Colour (2003) ISBN 0-7011-7296-7
The Road Home (2008) ISBN 978-0-09-947846-1
Trespass (2010 W.

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