Research Catalog

Title

Rosie : scenes from a vanished life / Rose Tremain.

Author

Tremain, Rose

Publication

• London, England : Chatto & Windus, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Summary

Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. The girl known then as 'Rosie' and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grandparents' farm, buried deep in the Hampshire countryside, a green paradise of feasts and freedom, where they could at last roam and dream. But when Rosie is ten years old, everything changes. She and Jo lose their father, their London house, their school, their friends, and -- most agonisingly of all -- their beloved Nanny, Vera, the only adult to have shown them real love and affection. Briskly dispatched to a freezing boarding-school in Hertfordshire, they once again feel like imprisoned castaways. But slowly the teenage Rosie escapes from the cold world of the Fifties, into a place of inspiration and mischief, of loving friendships and dedicated teachers, where a young writer is suddenly ready to be born.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Tremain, Rose
• Manners and customs
• Authors > Biography
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Tremain, Rose > Childhood and youth
• Biography

Genre/Form

Biography.

Note

• Includes index.

Call Number

JFD 18-3401

ISBN

• 9781784742270
• 1784742279

LCCN

2018379192

OCLC

994369769

Author

Tremain, Rose, author.

Title

Rosie : scenes from a vanished life / Rose Tremain.

Publisher

London, England : Chatto & Windus, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3401