We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
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Rose Tremain
English writer
United Kingdom · b. 1943
Born in London, Tremain, 78, published her first novel, Sadler’s Birthday, in 1976. In 1989, Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker prize and went on to become a film and a play. Her awards include the 1999 Whitbread novel of the year for Music and Silence, and the 2008 Orange prize for fiction for The Road Home. Last year, she published her 16th novel, Lily. She lives in Norfolk with her husband, the biographer Richard Holmes, and has a daughter.
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The only drink I really, really like is champagne.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Talking in cliches. We have the most economic, resonant and versatile language in the world, yet so many people use it in a dull and boring way.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
When I first met Richard, in 1992, on a British Council writers’ tour of Adelaide. We were drinking Australian lager while parakeets squawked rudely in the neighbourhood gumtrees.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
A cream suit from Chanel that cost almost as much as a small car.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Like coming home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
The film of Restoration. A beautiful cast. An award-winning designer. A massive budget. A dog’s dinner.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Meryl Streep. For all her truthful and perfected offerings that have taken me to an “elsewhere”, in which my mind could feel both soothed and stimulated.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
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