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Author: Rose TremainPaperbackAfter the collapse of his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall emigrate to a sleepy French village. When Miriam returns to Oxford and her mother's deathbed, Larry begins to formulate an astonishing new idea: to create the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. While around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate lives of the two communities: Miriam's mother, the beautiful and clever Leni. Nadia, tortured by her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes.ISBN: 9780099428251Publisher: Vintage
Author: Rose TremainPaperbackAfter the collapse of his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall emigrate to a sleepy French village. When Miriam returns to Oxford and her mother's deathbed, Larry begins to formulate an astonishing new idea: to create the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. While around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate lives of the two communities: Miriam's mother, the beautiful and clever Leni. Nadia, tortured by her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes.ISBN: 9780099428251Publisher: Vintage
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
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