Rose Tremain writes literary fiction across historical and contemporary settings, often following characters whose desires pull them beyond the limits of class, family or convention. Restoration follows physician Robert Merivel through the court of Charles II, while Music & Silence moves through seventeenth-century Denmark and the life of a royal orchestra. The Road Home centres on a migrant worker from Eastern Europe in Britain, and The Gustav Sonata traces friendship and emotional restraint in Switzerland across several decades. Tremain’s novels are character-led, precise and varied in setting, with moral ambiguity taking precedence over tidy resolution. Restoration and The Gustav Sonata show the breadth of Tremain’s settings, but both depend on the same close interest in people whose longing or self-deception puts pressure on the roles society has assigned them. Read more Less
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