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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) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Refreshingly unpretentious short stories. Some have been published before, but the majority are new, and all are fine examples of Tremain's seemingly limitless imagination and mastery of numerous styles. Here we glimpse into the lives of a solitary, bitter spinster candle-maker in Corsica; an ambitious horologist, 'repairer of time' who is obsessed by what lies behind Evangelista's fan; the astounding awakening of a doctor from her temporary waking coma; and Agincourt as seen by the herald who rides to negotiate between the two camps. Sometimes magical, sometimes startlingly real, this is a powerful, diverse collection. (Kirkus UK)
