Rose Tremain “In a sense, writers live their lives twice over. We live in a day-to-day life, but our minds are always turning over the possibility of the transmutation of that life into something else. If, for some reason, I couldn’t be a writer any more, my life would seem rather thin to me, sort of without substance.”
[Rose Tremain from ‘A Life in the Day’ in ‘The Sunday Times Magazine’ October 19, 2014]
My favourite Tremain book? The Colour, soon to be made into a film.
Click here to read a review of The Colour in The Independent when it was first published in 2003.
To see what I thought of The Colour, click here.
For news about the film of The Colour, click here.
To read a biography of Rose Tremain by the British Council, click here.
If you agree with Rose Tremain, perhaps you will agree with:-
Chris Pavone – put ordinary people into extraordinary situations
Deborah McKinlay – the lean years focussed me on what I really wanted
Michèle Forbes – I was born there, grew up there, and I felt I had to reconnect with the place
‘The Colour’ by Rose Tremain [UK: Vintage]
And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
I agree with Rose Tremain … that all #authors are thinking about writing http://wp.me/p5gEM4-1gC via @SandraDanby #amwriting
Did they make it into a film? I loved this book too. I lived in Otago on the south island for many years.
Sadly there’s no word on the film, it is still described as ‘in development’. SD