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The Colonel's Daughter

The Colonel's Daughter

by RoseTremain (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.60

  • Used

    Paperback 1989

    $3.45
Synopsis

At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0099284278
ISBN 13: 9780099284277
Book Overview: A masterful collection from the Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain - these are stories of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives and of love and lies.

Media Reviews
Rose Tremain goes from strength to strength... A riveting and satisfying read * New Statesman *
A true writer of fiction... A writer whose every book has been a pleasure * Scotsman *
Demonstrates a wry talent and considerable fertility of imagination * Guardian *
The dialogue and off-beat humour are spot on * 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