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By (author) Tremain Rose

‘Gorgeous’ Observer*
‘Profoundly moving’ Financial Times*”Electrifying” Daily Mail

How 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 Tremain

Marianne 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 Simon’s glittering future dashed, and with it, Marianne’s 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 all-encompassing 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 Times

‘A complex tale of becoming that’s moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity’ Mail on Sunday

*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*

* Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction *

READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:

”Heartrending, funny, unputdownable” 5*****

”An undoubted modern classic” 5*****

”Marianne will remain with me as a friend” 5*****

”A masterclass in character and world building … the writing is just sublime” 5*****

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PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:
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Stunningly beautiful and deeply moving”

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A perfect Tremain novel… English, dark and yearning… remarkable… [Tremain shows] us the things that make every human life extraordinary

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Funny, piercing and singular… this gorgeous, pitch-perfect novel is a world unto itself… it’s powerful, too… I can’t fathom the reason why you wouldn’t rush straight out to buy it

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A
slim, funny, elegantly breezy coming-of-age story

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A complex tale of becoming that’s
moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity

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An
electrifying,
word-perfect tale…
Gently devastating,
devastatingly beautiful

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An
engrossing character study … But it is also a study in tolerance and kindness, and as such is
more relevant to today’s reader than it might first seem

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Written with
piercing clarity and
gentle humour, Absolutely And Forever is a study of the messiness of human relationships, the significance of secrets unspoken and the impact of the choices we make

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This is a book about the comic, painful, life-long search for human understanding. Not a word is wasted; not a phrase trite. It is
mesmerising, masterly and profoundly moving

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Rose Tremain… is back on form with Absolutely and Forever

Biographical note:
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