As always, Rose Tremain's characters have a way of sneaking up on you as you read. The gentle meandering through intersecting lives overshadows the slow moving story because, really, it's ofetn not the story that makes Tremain's writing addictive, but the depth and complexity of her characters. THE ...
Takes patience and time to let the author unravel the complex threads of the stories within stories. These could have perhaps been unravelled a bit quicker as I found the pace slow. Not as enjoyable as The Colour or Music & Silence, both of which are magnificent works by Rose Tremain. Her writing is...
Nearly 200 pages of predominantly prose, with little dialogue and white space, and yet, I could hardly put the book down. Different to the other Rose Tremain's I've read & loved (particularly The Colour and Music & Silence), the Letters to Sister Benedicta trace the inner rambles of Ruby's fractur...
bookshelves: published-2005, under-500-ratings, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, radio-4x, play-dramatisation, historical-fiction, summer-2015, satire, biography Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from August 19 to 25, 2015 Description: Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman ...
Loved so many of these varied stories. Her writing is amazing, fitting each story in each country and time period perfectly. From the Jester of Astapovo, where a man who signals in the trains, abhors the fact that nothing will ever happen in his life, just monotony, the same day by day.. Then two me...
bookshelves: autumn-2014, fradio, published-2014, radio-4, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, period-piece, london, britain-england, glbt, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from September 23 to 24, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hvxbmDescription: Trapped in a L...
Przez 80% czasu, kiedy ją czytałam po prostu mnie nudziła. Zakończenie faktycznie niespodziewane. Osobiście przeczytałam ją tylko dlatego, że pożyczyła mi ją koleżanka. Wyjeżdża, więc musiałam się pośpieszyć. Nie polecam, mimo że ona tak ją chwaliła.
3.5Rose Tremain is one of my favourite authors, although I haven’t read one of hers in a while. I tend to save them up for times when I just want a good book.This was a good book, I enjoyed it so perhaps it says more about my reading mood that I didn’t enjoy it quite so much as I thought I would. O...
Sacred Country has at its core, the story of Mary Ward who in 1952, at six years old, while standing in the middle of a field in Suffolk in a silence intended to mark the death of the king, realises that she is a boy trapped in a girl's body. The novel follows her struggle with the implications of t...
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