Rose Tremain is an internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of novels, short stories and screenplays. Her most recent novel, the bestselling Music and Silence, won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.
Tremain is a magnificent storyteller with an enormous story to tell * Independent on Sunday * This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in England * Daily Telegraph * Tremain has produced her own wondrous piece of gold * Scotsman * A fabulous work, bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying * Independent * This is a beautifully crafted book - at once a gripping adventure story and a compelling portrayal of human emotion at its bravest and its most vulnerable * Economist *