Description
'Gorgeous' Observer * 'Profoundly moving' Financial Times * ' Electrifying' Daily Mail How do you find the courage to make your own life? An unputdownable novel about first love set in 1960s London from Sunday Times bestselling Rose Tremain Marianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find true happiness with him. However a twist of fate sees Simon's glittering future dashed, and with it, Marianne's dreams. He flees the country and Marianne, realising she will now have to make a life of her own, moves to London determined to reinvent herself. But Marianne cannot let go of that first all-encompassing love and all the while Simon is in Paris, nursing a secret that will alter everything. 'A perfect Tremain novel... English, dark and yearning... Remarkable... Tremain shows us the things that make every human life extraordinary' The Times 'A complex tale of becoming that's moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity' Mail on Sunday *A Sunday Times Book of the Year* * Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction * READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER : 'Heartrending, funny, unputdownable' 5***** 'An undoubted modern classic' 5***** 'Marianne will remain with me as a friend' 5***** 'A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime' 5*****
| EAN: | 9781529922509 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 06.06.2024 |
| Autoren: | Tremain, Rose |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 180 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | best books 2024; pulitzer prize winning books; sunday times bestsellers; new releases; books bestsellers; historical fiction; sixties; 1960s; historical novels; historical fiction books; emotional; coming of age; romantic fiction; book club recommendations; romance; book club books; funny; parenting; motherhood; seventies; feminism; literary fiction; 60s; romantic; christmas gifts for wife; love triangle; young woman; lily; booker prize; twentieth century; christmas gifts for mum; novels; hitorical; contemporary; mid century modern; historical; british; england |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~London / Roman, Erzählung~Fünfziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Historischer Roman~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Adoleszenz~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen |
| Imprint-Titels: | Vintage Books |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 131 mm |
| Höhe: | 20 mm |