From the author ofThe Gustav Sonata A seductive new collection of stories from the Orange Prize-winning author ofThe Road HomeandRestoration

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmasters cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughters demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor.

Over a million Rose Tremain books sold A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotionIndependent I There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose TremainIrish Times Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effectThe Times Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists Salman Rushdie Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness Marcel Theroux,Guardian

Rose Tremains novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several 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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel,The Gustav Sonata, was aSunday TimesTop Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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