Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life (Hardback)

Rose Tremain (author)

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Hardback 224 Pages / Published: 12/04/2018

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'Rose Tremain turns to non-fiction for the first time with this lyrical account of her life up to the age of 18... wonderfully vivid - distinctive, like being donated a set of dreams.' - Claire Harman, Evening Standard

Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed.

The girl known then as `Rosie' and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grandparents' farm, buried deep in the Hampshire countryside: a green paradise of feasts and freedom, where they could at last roam and dream. But when Rosie is ten years old, everything changes.

In Rosie, the Orange Prize-winning author of The Road Home, Restoration and The Gustav Sonata unfurls her trademark insight and precision to regard her own coming of age. Rose Tremain’s account also expertly sums the death knell of establishment Britain, where 1950s well-to-do schoolgirls were prepared for a glum marrying-off. Unsentimental and brimming with observational candour, Rosie opens the door to a world swept away by the social revolution to come.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784742270
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 357 g
Dimensions: 204 x 144 x 24 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

'A raw, ungainly, arresting book.' - The Guardian

'A book as nourishing, but concise as this makes you wonder why other writers have to be so long-winded' - The Times

'Fans of her novels will know Tremain has a brilliant eye' - The Sunday Times

'Rose Tremain turns to non-fiction for the first time with this lyrical account of her life up to the age of 18 ... The evocation of 1950s schoolgirldom, with all its emotions, elations and smells, is wonderfully vivid - distinctive, like being donated a set of dreams ... A quiet drama, but as you'd expect it's the writing that makes this book such a delight' - Claire Harman, Evening Standard

'A beautifully written ode to the tenacity of our younger selves' - Francesca Brown, Stylist