Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. A middle-aged woman cares for her injured mother at Christmas. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor, Daphne du Maurier.
Rose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories. In her precise yet sensuous style, she lays bare the soul of her characters-the admirable, the embarrassing, the unfulfilled, the sexy, and the adorable-to uncover a dazzling range of human emotions and desires.
Author Biography
Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have been published in thirty countries. She is the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her novel Restoration was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent novels are Trespass and Merivel. She lives in Norfolk and London.
