Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. When she was six, the family moved to a small coastal village in Italy, where her father made a living as a translator of classical works and editor of textbooks. There, she developed a sense of adventure that was to be a dominant feature of her life.

'Rose Macaulay is so artful, so witty, so responsive. The Towers of Trebizond is a book which will irradiate not only the wet afternoons of a summer holiday, but memory as well.'The Times

Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. When she was six, the family moved to a small coastal village in Italy, where her father made a living as a translator of classical works and editor of textbooks. There, she developed a sense of adventure that was to be a dominant feature of her life.

'Rose Macaulay is so artful, so witty, so responsive. The Towers of Trebizond is a book which will irradiate not only the wet afternoons of a summer holiday, but memory as well.'The Times