Download or read book Sacred Country written by Rose Tremain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain that she is really a male trapped in a female body, Mary Ward pursues this elusive identity, much to the consternation of her mother, her brother, and a neighbor's son.

Download or read book Restoration written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious young medical student abandons his studies to revel at the court of King Charles II.

Download or read book The Gustav Sonata A Novel written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. The novel follows Gustav’s family, tracing the roots of his mother’s anti-Semitism and its impact on her son and his beloved friend. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and forward through the lives and careers of the two men, one who becomes a hotel owner, the other a concert pianist, The Gustav Sonata explores the passionate love of childhood friendship as it is lost, transformed, and regained over a lifetime. It is a powerful and deeply moving addition to the beloved oeuvre of one of our greatest contemporary novelists.

Download or read book Music Silence written by Anne Redmon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young English lutenist named Peter Claire who, in 1629, arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.

Download or read book Merivel A Man of His Time written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.

Download or read book The Colour written by Rose Tremain and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.

Download or read book The Road Home written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience. Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging... 'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday Telegraph Praise for Rose Tremain: 'One of my favourite writers' Nina Stibbe 'Tremain is one of the best novelists writing today' Sara Collins 'Pulsatingly alive . . . no one can break your heart quite like this' Neel Mukherjee

Download or read book Islands of Mercy written by Rose Tremain and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bath, 1865: A young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she is torn between a dangerous affair with a female lover and the promise of a conventional marriage to an apparently respectable doctor, her desires begin to lead her towards a future she had never imagined. Meanwhile, on the wild island of Borneo, an eccentric British 'rajah', Sir Ralph Savage, overflowing with philanthropy but compromised by his passions, sees his schemes relentlessly undermined. Jane's quest for an altered life and Sir Ralph's endeavours become locked together as the story journeys across the globe - from the confines of an English tearoom to the rainforests of a tropical island, via the slums of Dublin and the transgressive fancy-dress boutiques of Paris.

Download or read book The Cupboard written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she has told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life. Only one secret remains - the meaning of the cupboard.

Download or read book The Way I Found Her written by Rose Tremain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding and bittersweet novel of a 13-year-old boy who gets caught up in an unusual and perilous romance and must confront adult truths before he is ready.

Download or read book The Darkness of Wallis Simpson Storycuts written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull little man with no name, it is deeper remembrances that engulf her on her death bed, blotting out the inconsequential details of her life. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

Download or read book Trespass written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uneasy peace between an alcoholic brother and his sister is disturbed by an antiques dealer who is looking to relocate.

Download or read book Rosie written by Rose Tremain and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *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

Download or read book The Fight for Freedom for Women written by Rose Tremain and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Colonel s Daughter and Other Stories written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Gustav Sonata At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day- it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies... Over a million Rose Tremain books sold 'A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I 'There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times 'Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times 'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie 'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian

Download or read book Evangelista s Fan Storycuts written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salvatore, a young watchmaker from Italy, moves to London when the king of his hometown decrees that a period of twenty-six years is to be erased from history, never to be mentioned in public again. Since this constitutes the whole of period of his life Salvatore feels he has no choice but to flee. But in London, what challenges will this man face, who holds so deeply to the importance of time and identity? Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Evangelista's Fan.

Download or read book The Swimming Pool Season written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Gustav Sonata After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. Around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate fabric of the lives of two communities: Miriam's mother, Leni, clever, beautiful and arrogant. Polish Nadia, tortured by the passions of her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes. Over a million Rose Tremain books sold ‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion’ Independent I ‘There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain’ Irish Times ‘Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect’ The Times ‘Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists’ Salman Rushdie ‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness’ Marcel Theroux, Guardian