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Rose Tremain


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
August 02, 1943

Website

Genre
Historical Fiction, Magical Realism

Influences
William Golding, Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have won many awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Prix Femina Etranger. Restoration, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 68,705 ratings · 7,031 reviews · 80 distinct works • Similar authors
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Lily
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Restoration
3.98 avg rating — 6,368 ratings — published 1989 — 40 editions
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The Colour
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Music & Silence
3.95 avg rating — 4,633 ratings — published 1999 — 72 editions
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Trespass
3.58 avg rating — 4,960 ratings — published 2010 — 30 editions
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Absolutely and Forever
3.89 avg rating — 3,729 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions
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Islands of Mercy
3.70 avg rating — 3,085 ratings — published 2020 — 23 editions
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Merivel: A Man of His Time
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Restoration Merivel: A Man of His Time
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“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
tags: endings, planning, writing
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“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 & Silence
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