The Colour

Informationen zum Autor Rose Tremain 's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many 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 ) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France ( Sacred Country ) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award ( The Gustav Sonata ). Her most recent novel is Lily , a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. Klappentext Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies. Zusammenfassung Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies.

Product details

• Authors: Rose Tremain, Tremain Rose
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.04.2004
• EAN: 9780099425151
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942515-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Norfolk, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Family life fiction, New Zealand, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / England / 21st Century, New Zealand / Aotearoa