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.
A remarkable novel The Times A major book Daily Telegraph Hypnotic... Curiously beautiful and strikingly original Spectator Brilliant. A strong, complex, unsentimental novel Times Literary Supplement Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart-Funny, absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year Literary Review