Rose Tremain

When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence....

Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital....

In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her....

A story of the quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love....

Rose Tremain grew up in postwar London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed....

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court....

The Restoration is over and Robert Merivel, renowned physician and courtier to Charles II, now faces the anxieties of middle age....

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s let his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin....

London holds the alluring possibilities of friendship, sex, money, and a new career. But, more than this, the sense of belonging....

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother, but she treats him with bitter severity....

Marianne 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....

Two paths. Two futures. But only one way home.

The award-winning Music & Silence is one of Tremain's most popular works....

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris....

They sought the box for many years, because held inside that arcane magical artefact was, miraculously, a house....

1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field with her family, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy....

The Road Home is the best-selling story of Lev, a middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe, who moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job....

The award-winning Restoration is one of Rose Tremain's most popular works, and showcases her remarkable talent for capturing historical settings and personalities....

This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his mother, Alice....

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer....