The Cupboard

The Cupboard

by RoseTremain (Author)

Synopsis

When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and, above all, lover, from childhood in Suffolk, Paris between the wars, to oblivion in post-war London. At the end of Ralph's patient probings only one secret remains: the mystery inside one constant object in her life - her cupboard.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Sep 1999

ISBN 10: 0099284170
ISBN 13: 9780099284178
Book Overview: 'Deeply evocative - a book brimming with life' The Times

Media Reviews
This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in English * Daily Telegraph *
ROSE TREMAIN'S FICTION IS MY GOLD STANDARD -- Charlotte Mendelson * Independent on Sunday *
Much of the power of the book springs from Erica herself, a magnificent and greatly sympathetic creation... Miss Tremain has fashioned the totality of one life - and conveyed the evanescence of all human existence * Sunday Telegraph *
Strongly constructed - highly relevant - thoroughly fascinating * Sunday Times *
Rose Tremain has managed to get into the skin of her clever and wilful old heroine -- Nina Bawden * Daily Telegraph *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's 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 a Sunday Times Top 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. www.rosetremain.co.uk