Rose Tremain

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1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1995 age 52

   CreditRestorationscreenwriter

• RARoger Ashton-Griffiths1 title
• JHJames Newton Howard1 title
• SNSam Neill1 title
• IMIan McKellen1 title
• RJRobert Downey Jr.1 title
• DGDavid Gant1 title
• IMIan McDiarmid1 title
• DTDavid Thewlis1 title
• DRDavid Ryall1 title
• BPBryan Pringle1 title

• I think, on a , what I’d really appreciate are long books: books as day-by-day companions, to combat loneliness and fear. We have some brilliant contemporary authors who write on the big canvas, yet I feel that desert-island panic might be better combated by novels set in the past, preferably by long-dead authors who had never experienced central heating or modern dentistry. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Balzac’s and Trollope’s (all with vibrant and courageous female protagonists, to spur me on to valour and fortitude) would be among my front runners. Reading contemporary novels would remind me, hour after hour, of the world I’d lost and might never regain. Tolstoy, on the other hand, reveals to me a universe I may never manage to understand in its entirety, so when I get to the end, I can happily start at the beginning again.

  Rose Tremain, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Give history to children in the form of lists of dates or lumps of data and they won’t respond to it at all, but give them an image King Charles II, say, , or a defeated Napoleon staring out at an empty ocean from the cliffs of ) and this could be something which might move and inspire them.

  Rose Tremain, CC BY-SA 4.0