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In person Tremain is tall and elegant, sharp but not severe. She speaks fluently about her writing, and says she has learned to enjoy audiences at public events and literary festivals. A tutor on the University of East Anglia's creative writing MA course from 1988 to 1995, where Andrew Miller, Tracy Chevalier and Erica Wagner were among her students, she says she would have tried to get on the course herself if it had existed when she graduated, and remains a firm believer in its benefits. "It's so lonely trying to be a writer, starting out. Nobody knows about your stuff, nobody is waiting for it. You think 'I'm a writer' but actually you can't call yourself a writer because you haven't done anything. But the minute you come on to the course you're treated as a writer and your loneliness disappears.

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The historical detail is worked into the story well, and there's a good sense of place with some evocative descriptions (although one key setting--the Hurunui gorge--is left almost entirely to the reader's imagination, as if it were intended to be more metaphorical than real). And the writing is good. There's something opaque about it, though: scenes that seem intended to have some great symbolic or metaphorical meaning that was not evident to me. Maybe the point was that life doesn't always make sense or turn out well--it's a melancholy book--but there's something rather distancing about Tremain's vision or her writing style that I didn't feel I entirely understood. This is a rather meditative and often melancholic work. Rose Tremain gets deep inside the hearts and minds of the characters, sifting through their hopes and despairs and secret motivations. This is where her writing really shines. Would YOU be able to tell these doughnuts are healthier? From Double Chocolate to Peanut Caramel Protein and Strawberry Cheesecake - these treats all have less, fat, sugar AND calories

Cain, Sian (22 November 2016). "Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 11 May 2019. This book is beautifully and atmospherically written. It conjures a sense of time and place and reminds me of the type of writing we find in novels of the 19th century. All the senses come into play in the creation of these scenes. Tremain brings these characters to life. We understand their deepest desires, anxieties, strengths, flaws, and what drives their actions, even acts that are not particularly pleasant. Are STEM CELLEXOSOMES the secret to a 'snatched' jawline? Discover the products that influencers are claiming gave them taut, flawless skin... James Martin makes a public appearance at BBC Good Food Show weeks after announcing career break amid cancer battle Doctor Who 60th Anniversary: Viewers laud Yasmin Finney's debut after she steals the show as Donna Noble's transgender daughter RoseThe book has a syrupy pace, any one moment full and rich but in no hurry to get to the next and a persistent strangeness - in a word, dreamlike. Summed up by the central image of the cob house as a symbol it suggests something strong and rooted naturally this turns out not to be the case - inexpertly constructed by the novel's central male character as a couple's 'starter home'. A couple from England have migrated to New Zealand, plainly they are trying to escape the past and seize dreams - the gold fields call to the man's imagination, so as you can imagine the action of the book concerns real energy and effort expended in pursuit of the insubstantial. Strictly viewers fear Angela Scanlon will be the next dancer leaving the competition after she was dealt devastating blow