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Rosie
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  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784708016
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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Rosie

Scenes from a Vanished Life

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12 Apr 2018
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12 Apr 2018
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16 Apr 2019
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A memoir from one of our best-loved and best-selling authors. A beautiful and compelling glimpse into a world now lost and the birth of a writer

*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*

Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London – a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed.

But when she is ten years old, everything changes. She loses her father, her house, her school, her friends and is dispatched to a freezing boarding-school in Hertfordshire. Slowly though, the teenage Rosie escapes from the cold world of the Fifties, into a place of inspiration and friendship, where a young writer is suddenly ready to be born.

‘An evocative, unflinching memoir...electric’ Mail on Sunday
  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784708016
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

www.rosetremain.co.uk

portrait photo of Rose Tremain

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Absolutely and Forever
Iron Robin
Lily
Islands of Mercy
Friendship
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