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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. 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 The Vintage Classic reissue of Rose Tremain's novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 and made into a 1995 movie starring Robert Downey Jr. Tremain's last novel "The Road Home" won the 2008 Orange Broadband prize. 'Triumphant.' "Sunday Telegraph". Zusammenfassung Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role.
