Over 1.8 million Rose Tremain books sold: including
The Gustav Sonata 174k,
Trespass 219k and
The Road Home 379k
A literary crossover hit for fans of The Binding,
The Confessions of Frannie Langton and
The Doll FactoryUnmissable marketing campaign to launch paperback publication
Gorgeous commercial package for paperback
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 (
Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (
The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is
Islands of Mercy. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and revenge set in Victorian England
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer...
London, 1850. On a freezing winter's night, a baby is abandoned at the gates of a park only to be saved by a young policeman and taken to the Foundling Hospital.
After suffering years of brutal hardship at the Hospital, Lily is released into the world of Victorian London. But she is hiding a dreadful secret...
When Lily and the policeman meet again, Lily is convinced that he holds the key to her happiness. But might he also be the one to uncover her crime and so condemn her to death?
'Enthralling... Tremain evokes Victorian London with visceral intensity in a gripping and deeply humane novel exploring themes of rejection, poverty, guilt and redemption' Observer
Lily, in addition to its pellucid prose, is
shamelessly grippingTremain's latest novel more than lives up to its atmospheric, riveting beginning... It's consummate storytelling, and finds room for redemption as well as revengeAnother memorable and engrossing read from Tremain, which brings Victorian London, and especially courageous Lily, to life on the pageA heartbreaking story set in Victorian England from the pitch-perfect pen of Rose TremainTremain's gift is to create characters whose experiences span every walk of life, but who are grounded in their author's understanding of the world
