Tag: Rose Tremain

  • The Gustav Sonata, by Rose Tremain

    Hardback, Chatto and Windus, £16.99, out now Gustav lives with his widowed mother in Switzerland, just after the Second World War.  A young boy, he is raised by his mother to value Switzerland’s neutrality, and told to master his own emotions.  Gustav forms an intense friendship with a new arrival at his school, a Jewish…

  • The American Lover, by Rose Tremain

    Paperback £8.99, Vintage, out now I don’t often feel like reading short stories, but this collection by one of my favourite novelists makes for a swift and pleasurable read. The stories are diverse but this manages not to jar, which is especially impressive given their variety. Tolstoy is dying in a Russian stationmaster’s house –…

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