Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Tremain Rose
Wallis Simpson, for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone visit her in her Paris flat. This novel takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. The other stories in this collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected.
"'these stories deserve to be savoured slowly'" -- Lesley McDowell Sunday Herald "'Written with the deft imagination we've come to know and love from Rose Tremain' Good Housekeeping 'Her exactness and lightness of touch in scene-setting are used to superb effect in her short stories' Independent 'Brilliantly written short story collection' Daily Express 'Original and thoughtful' Literary Review 'Remarkable' Guardian 'Tremain's luminous talent for the fusion of the extraordinary and the commonplace is striking' Sunday Telegraph 'Tremain shifts shape and voice with consummate skill..admirably unsentimental' Daily Mail 'Superb' Woman & Home 'Their overall tone is bleak: a mood that Rose Tremain captures deftly and with great economy' Financial Times 'Exactly as short stories ought to be' Independent 'Tremain delights with the sharpness of her observation and moments of poetic description' Scotsman 'I can't think of a better sentence-to-sentence writer of fiction' The Irish Times, Books of the Year 'The best of our living short story writers, has produced a dozen more, each of which strikesme as a masterpiece' Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year" Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year "Mordantly perceptive tales" -- Penny Perrick Sunday Times
Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860560323 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860560326 |
| Title | Darkness of Wallis Simpson |
| Author | Tremain Rose |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2005-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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