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Rose Tremain
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099268550
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EAN: 9780099268550
Published: 3 Jul 2008
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.
Designated the King's 'Angel' because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided between duty and passion, how can Peter Claire find the path that will realise his hopes and save his soul?
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The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.
- John Julius Norwich
Tremain weaves her web of stories with great visual flair and emotional acuity: This is a fabulous cacophony of passion and despair.
- Metro
She is the best historical novelist of her generation. She evokes the past with sensuality, wit and superb sleights of hand... The plot is ingenious...an unforgettable tapestry of Eros and of art
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A superb novel . a wonderful, joyously noisy book.
- Guardian
Tremain's achievement in Music & Silence is extraordinary ... A narrative as funny as it is compelling.
- Daily Telegraph
Intricate and sparkling ... Ingenious, amusing and beautifully written
- Observer
Music & Silence is a magnificent novel . a brilliant book which will repay many readings.
- The Times
Lyrical, voluptuous . splendid . A sumptuous drama lit by the glamorous torchlight of the courtly past.
- Sunday Times
Lyrical, voluptuous... splendid... A sumptuous drama lit by the glamorous torchlight of the courtly past
- Sunday Times
Rose Tremain lives in North London and Norwich, with the biographer Richard Holmes.
Her books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker and made into a film; The Colour was shortlisted for the Orange and selected by the Daily Mail Reading Club. Her most recent collection, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, was shortlisted for both the First National Short story Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Two of her books (The Colour and The Way I Found Her) are in development as films, and she is currently working on a TV screenplay to star Sir Ian McKellen.
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