Gorgeous Observer Profoundly moving Financial Times Electrifying Daily MailHow 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 TremainMarianne 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 Simons glittering future dashed, and with it, Mariannes 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 allencompassing 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 TimesA complex tale of becoming thats moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity Mail on SundayA Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVERHeartrending, funny, unputdownable 5An undoubted modern classic 5Marianne will remain with me as a friend 5A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime 5
Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 260 g; Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 13
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Gorgeous Observer Profoundly moving Financial Times Electrifying Daily MailHow 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 TremainMarianne 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 Simons glittering future dashed, and with it, Mariannes 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 allencompassing 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 TimesA complex tale of becoming thats moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity Mail on SundayA Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVERHeartrending, funny, unputdownable 5An undoubted modern classic 5Marianne will remain with me as a friend 5A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime 5
Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 260 g; Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 13
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