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Rose Tremain
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099284376
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EAN: 9780099284376
Published: 3 Jul 2008
Today is Jack Sadler's birthday. Or is it? He's not sure, he doesn't really care. It might be his last day or the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room. He knows the truth about his past lies there and somehow he must get in and confront it.
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This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in English
- Daily Telegraph
She is a magical storyteller- it is as an artist that she excels
- New Statesman
Not many first novels combine imagination and discipline to this degree
- The Listener
A quintessentially English writer - her work has a charm and finesse, a civilised irony
- The Guardian
She is a magical storyteller - it is as an artist that she excels
- New Statesman
Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country). Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in1989 and made into a film in 1995. Her short story, ‘Moth’, was also filmed (as the award-winning Ricky) by François Ozon in 2009. Her most recent novel, Trespass, was a Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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