Rose Tremain





Rose Tremain

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born
in London, The United Kingdom
August 02, 1943

gender
female

genre

influences
William Golding, Gabriel Garcia Marquez


About this author

Rose Tremain is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including The Road Home, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and Restoration, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She lives in Norfolk and north London.
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Average rating: 3.75 · 10,643 ratings · 1,366 reviews · 32 distinct works · Similar authors
The Road Home
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 2,879 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions
The Colour
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,843 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
Trespass
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,543 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
Restoration
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,344 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions
Music and Silence
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions
The Way I Found Her
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
Sacred Country
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
Merivel: A Man of His Time
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
The Swimming Pool Season
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
The Darkness Of Wallis Simpson
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Restoration Merivel: A Man of His Time
Restoration (2 books)
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3.960594315245478 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,548 ratings

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“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”
Rose Tremain

“And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.”
Rose Tremain, Music and Silence

“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
Rose Tremain

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