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The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times).
"Nothing less than superb."
"A regal work—here, brought to triumphant attainment, are those elusive ideals of the historical novelist."
Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.