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 France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

"A seemingly effortless performance... the writing glides along, elegantly dropping details that suggest a whole way of life" -- Phil Baker The Sunday Times "Powerful, involving, wide-ranging collection" -- Gerard Woodward Guardian "With a keen ear for dialogue and restless changes of scene, she shows desire and disappointment to be universal, timeless emotions" -- Nicholas Blincoe Sunday Telegraph "Tremain's stories offer an elegant snapshot of other people's lives that leaves an emotional impact long after you close the book" -- Michelle Margherita Stylist "Even in the most melancholy stories, Tremain delivers slivers of hope or humour to temper the tragedies. Fallibility is leveling rather than depressing and this collections highlights with subtlety and grace just how human it is to get things wrong" -- Christian House Daily Telegraph