Rose Tremain

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born

August 02, 1943 in London, The United Kingdom

gender

female

genre

Historical Fiction, Magical realism

influences

William Golding, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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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Books by Rose Tremain

Average rating: 3.69 · 5,993 ratings · 987 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Road Home 3.78 avg rating — 1,634 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Colour 3.66 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Trespass 3.44 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Music and Silence 3.83 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 1999 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Restoration 3.88 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1989 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Way I Found Her 3.52 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sacred Country by Rose Tremain, Julie Rubenstein (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 256 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Swimming Pool Season 3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Darkness of Wallis Simpson 3.39 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Cupboard 3.02 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Rose Tremain

“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”
― Rose Tremain

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“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

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“There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free.”
― Rose Tremain, Sacred Country

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