PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:
'Stunningly beautiful and deeply moving'
PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:
'Stunningly beautiful and deeply moving'
A
slim, funny, elegantly breezy coming-of-age story
Written with
piercing clarity and
gentle humour,
Absolutely And Forever is a study of the messiness of human relationships, the significance of secrets unspoken and the impact of the choices we make
This is a book about the comic, painful, life-long search for human understanding. Not a word is wasted; not a phrase trite. It is
mesmerising, masterly and profoundly moving[A] delicate, generous-hearted novelRose 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.