The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. What is the difference between
friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the
horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has
mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and
indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An
intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply
and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too
late…“This is a perfect novel”. (Observer). “The Gustav Sonata is
beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery”.
(Ian McEwan).
Author Biography
Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and
have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread
Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
(Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain
was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East
Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard
Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk
Shortlist, 2016 Costa Novel Award
