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Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.A novel of urgent humanity
Sunday Telegraph
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. <i>The Road Home </i>is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision
Observer
Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor
Sunday Times
A classic work by the gifted Tremain
Guardian
'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller'
Independent on sunday
...bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying
Independent
Luminous talent for the fusion of the extraordinary and the commonplace
Sunday Telegraph
I can't think of a better sentence-to-sentence writer of fiction
Irish Times
A strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour... wild and beautiful and full of woe
Sunday Herald
Vivid, original and always engaging
The Times
'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer
A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...
'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday Telegraph