Absolutely and Forever

There are only a handful of writers whose novels I read on publication day. Rose Tremain is one of them

John Boyne

PRAISE FOR ROSE TREMAIN: One of my favourite writers

Nina Stibbe

Tremain is one of the best novelists writing today

Sara Collins

Pulsatingly alive. . . no one can break your heart quite like this

Neel Mukherjee

Rose Tremain's fiction is my gold-standard

Charlotte Mendelson

PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER: 'Stunningly beautiful and deeply moving'

Simon Schama

Funny, piercing and singular… this gorgeous, pitch-perfect novel is a world unto itself… it’s powerful, too… I can’t fathom the reason why you wouldn’t rush straight out to buy it

Observer

A slim, funny, elegantly breezy coming-of-age story

Sunday Times

Rose Tremain… is back on form with Absolutely and Forever

Evening Standard

[A] delicate, generous-hearted novel

Spectator

This is a book about the comic, painful, life-long search for human understanding. Not a word is wasted; not a phrase trite. It is mesmerising, masterly and profoundly moving

Financial Times

A complex tale of becoming that’s moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity

Mail on Sunday

From page 4 of Absolutely and Forever we are swept back to the 1960s ... Skill and insouciance

TLS

An electrifying, word-perfect tale… Gently devastating, devastatingly beautiful

Daily Mail

Written with piercing clarity and gentle humour, Absolutely And Forever is a study of the messiness of human relationships, the significance of secrets unspoken and the impact of the choices we make

Independent

An engrossing character study ... But it is also a study in tolerance and kindness, and as such is more relevant to today’s reader than it might first seem

Guardian

A perfect Tremain novel… English, dark and yearning… remarkable… [Tremain shows] us the things that make every human life extraordinary

The Times

An electrifying, word-perfect tale ... [A] gently devastating, devastatingly beautiful novel

Irish Daily Mail

This is not the kind of book you would expect from an 80-year-old dame, but Rose Tremain has always surprised and delighted her readers…a slim, funny, elegantly breezy coming-of-age story… [and] Tremain’s most personal novel yet

Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

[An] inspiring and important book

Daily Mail, *Books of the Year*

A brilliant evocation of growing up in the 1960s, which will ring true for those of us who lived through the period… Highly recommended

Lady

[A] delightful book… Tremain’s novel is just as much about friendship as the ruinous effects of romance. There’s far more to this story than meets the eye

The Times, *Books of the Year*