The American Lover has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2014.
A collection of sensitive, absorbing and beautifully rendered stories. Only three are new, the rest (nine) have been published in various forms from the Guardian to Good Housekeeping. The three new are the title story, A View of Lake Superior in the Fall and Lucy and Gaston. Covering love and longing, death and loneliness, ambition and lack of fulfilment, their joy is in the writing, in being in her company. She is so good. This is her fifth collection.
A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books. Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster’s cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter’s demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor. ‘Superb, each story a perfectly cut jewel’ Irish Times
