The Way I Found Her

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

Rose Tremain

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Vintage
24 September 2020

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look 'This novel has the sparkle of sunlight on water...once more Rose Tremain beguiles you into suspending disbelief' Independent on Sunday

'A magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The Times

Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian emigre. Lewis is there to make his first acquaintance with one of the greatest cities in the world; neither can foresee the momentous events that lie in wait for them.

Valentina slowly casts a spell over Lewis, but when her past begins to encroach on all their lives and, as this enchanted world is gradually lost, Lewis is driven on a terrifying quest.

By: Rose Tremain
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9780749396992
ISBN 10: 0749396997
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 24 September 2020
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Way I Found Her: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

Middle-aged Russian novelist Valentina Gavrilovich writes immensely successful medieval romances, in French. Alice Little translates them into English. In the long hot summer of 1994, Alice goes from her home in Devon to Paris, to work on Valentina's latest book, taking her intelligent, precocious, 13-year-old son Lewis with her to perfect his French and experience life in one of Europe's most sophisticated cities. On the cusp of adolescence, Lewis falls erotically in love with Valentina and, when she mysteriously and suspiciously disappears, sets himself the task of tracking her down - only to find himself in very deep water indeed. By the time the story - seen entirely through Lewis's eyes - reaches its ironic end Lewis's anguished rite of passage is complete. By the author of Restoration, this is a modern teenager's pilgrimage from childhood to manhood, set against a marvellously-evoked Parisian backdrop, full of sharply-realized characters. (Kirkus UK)