Bücher von Rose Tremain

***Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award*** ** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **What is the difference between friendship and love? Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined.

'Gorgeous' Observer * 'Profoundly moving' Financial Times * 'Electrifying' Daily MailHow do you find the courage to make your own life? An unputdownable novel about first love set in 1960s London from Sunday Times bestselling Rose TremainMarianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find true happiness with him.However a twist of fate sees Simon's glittering future dashed, and with it, Marianne's dreams. He flees the country and Marianne, realising she will now have to make a life of her own, moves to London determined to reinvent herself. But Marianne cannot let go of that first all-encompassing love and all the while Simon is in Paris, nursing a secret that will alter everything.'A perfect Tremain novel... English, dark and yearning... Remarkable... Tremain shows us the things that make every human life extraordinary' The Times'A complex tale of becoming that's moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity' Mail on Sunday*A Sunday Times Book of the Year** Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction *READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:'Heartrending, funny, unputdownable' 5*****'An undoubted modern classic' 5*****'Marianne will remain with me as a friend' 5*****'A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime' 5*****

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writersMarianne 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. Simon's plans are blown off course, and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together.Narrating her own story, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, Marianne's telling use of irony and smart thinking gradually suggest to us that she has underestimated her own worth. We begin to believe that - in the end, supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella - she will find the life she never stops craving. But what we can't envisage is that beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst has been nursing a secret which will alter everything.

London, 1850: Mitten im Winter findet der junge Kommissar Sam Trench im Viktoria Park ein Bündel - darin liegt ein Neugeborenes. Die kleine Lily wird bei einer Pflegefamilie in Suffolk untergebracht, wo sie unbeschwerte Jahre verlebt, bis sie mit sechs ins Waisenhaus nach London muss, um zur Näherin ausgebildet zu werden. Dort herrschen strenge Regeln und die Aufseherinnen bestrafen die Mädchen hart. Als junge Frau kommt Lily bei einer Perückenmacherin unter und könnte endlich ein selbstbestimmtes Leben führen, doch eine schwere Schuld lastet auf ihr ... Sam Trench hat Lily nie ganz aus den Augen verloren, und als er der jungen Frau wieder begegnet, fühlen sich die beiden zueinander hingezogen. Lily glaubt, dass sie mit Sam endlich ein neues Leben beginnen kann - aber kann sie die Schatten der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen? Wie weit gehen wir, um erlittenes Unrecht zu vergelten? Wie können wir Frieden finden, wenn wir uns unwiederbringlich verloren glauben? Rose Tremains neuer Roman erzählt von der Dunkelheit, die dem Menschlichen innewohnt - aber auch von Wärme und Widerstandskraft.

From the critically-acclaimed historical novelist Rose Tremain comes the The ColourNewlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the "colour," rush to their destinies and doom.

Lev ist ein Glückssucher: Er ist nach London gekommen, um seiner Familie ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen. Fremd und einsam denkt er zurück an seine jung verstorbene Frau Marina, seine kleine Tochter Maya und die verrückten Erlebnisse mit seinem Freund Rudi. Doch Lev ist entschlossen, sich eine Zukunft zu erkämpfen: Er entdeckt ein ungeahntes Talent, findet Freunde und sogar eine neue Liebe.Kraftvoll und klar, voller Menschlichkeit, Herzenswärme und befreiendem Humor erzählt Rose Tremain von einem, der akzeptieren muß, daß bei jedem Aufbruch etwas zurückbleibt.

Ein Neuanfang soll es werden, als Harriet mit ihrem Mann Joseph im 19. Jahrhundert von England nach Neuseeland auswandert. Aber die erhoffte Liebe bleibt aus, genauso wie der Wohlstand, den sie sich erträumten. Als Joseph dem Goldfieber verfällt, bricht er Hals über Kopf auf und läßt seine Frau allein zurück. Doch Harriet gibt nicht auf und nimmt ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand. Voller Abenteuerlust und Freiheitsdrang reist sie ihrem eigenen Traum entgegen ...

Islands of Mercy is a novel that ignites the senses, and is a bold exploration of the human urge to seek places of sanctuary in a pitiless world. 'One of our most accomplished novelists' Observer'I loved it, and the images continue to haunt me months later.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; one of the Wall Street Journal's best books by women in 2010. Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable. Margot Livesey, Boston Sunday Globe"

Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity. Selected from the books Restoration and The Gustav Sonata by Rose TremainVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.

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. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...