Rose Tremain

London holds the alluring possibilities of friendship, sex, money, and a new career. But, more than this, the sense of belonging....

Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital....

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer....

They sought the box for many years, because held inside that arcane magical artefact was, miraculously, a house....

From Rose Tremain comes the Booker Prize short-listed novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” ( New York Times)....

The award-winning Music & Silence is one of Tremain's most popular works....

The Road Home is the best-selling story of Lev, a middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe, who moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job....

The Restoration is over and Robert Merivel, renowned physician and courtier to Charles II, now faces the anxieties of middle age....

A story of the quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love....

When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence....

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

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s let his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin....

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

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother, but she treats him with bitter severity....

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris....

The award-winning Restoration is one of Rose Tremain's most popular works, and showcases her remarkable talent for capturing historical settings and personalities....

In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her....

A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court....

Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes....