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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099268567

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 182g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

A masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning and bestselling Rose Tremain.

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American for whom Edward Vlll abdicated the throne, is on her deathbed in her Paris flat, closely guarded by her lawyer who will not allow her any visitors. An East German border guard, redundant after the fall of the Berlin Wall, tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland.A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his ‘frame’ – or does he?

‘Moving and tragic... The darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection’ Daily Express

‘Classic, breathtaking Tremain’ Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

‘Mordantly perceptive tales’ Sunday Times

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099268567

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 182g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Classic, breathtaking Tremain

    Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

  • Mordantly perceptive tales

    Sunday Times

  • Moving and tragic...the darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection

    Express

  • Written with the deft imagination we've come to know and love from Rose Tremain

    Good Housekeeping

  • A distinguished collection

    Stephanie Cross, Observer

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About the Author

Rose Tremain

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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

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Features

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The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

Read an extract from the masterful new novel by Rose Tremain, which traces a friendship across a lifetime
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Podcasts

May Podcast: MEN with Rose Tremain, Rebecca Asher, Juno Dawson and David Szalay

A wide-ranging and provocative discussion with Rebecca Asher and Juno Dawson is accompanied by interviews with David Szalay and Rose Tremain as we look at how novels and non-fiction are examining the modern male.

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