The Cupboard

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<p><b>From the author of<i>The Gustav Sonata</i></b></p><p>When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and, above all, lover, from childhood in Suffolk, Paris between the wars, to oblivion in post-war London. At the end of Ralph's patient probings only one secret remains: the mystery inside one constant object in her life - her cupboard.</p><p><b>Over a million Rose Tremain books sold</b></p><p><b>A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion<i>Independent I</i></b></p><p><b>There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain<i>Irish Times</i></b></p><p><b>Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect<i>The Times</i></b></p><p><b>'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie</b></p><p><b>Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness Marcel Theroux,<i>Guardian</i></b></p>

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<p>Rose Tremains novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (<i>The Road Home</i>), the Dylan Thomas Award<i>(The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories),</i>the Whitbread Novel of the Year (<i>Music&Silence</i>) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (<i>Sacred Country</i>). Her most recent novel,<i>The Gustav Sonata</i>, was a<i>Sunday Times</i>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. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.</p><p>www.rosetremain.co.uk</p>

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