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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446450475
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Sadler's Birthday



'A rather special work - a tour de force' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times

From the author of The Gustav Sonata

Today is Jack Sadler's birthday. Or is it? He's not sure, he doesn't really care. It might be his last day or the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room. He knows the truth about his past lies there and somehow he must get in and confront it.

Over a million Rose Tremain books sold

‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion’ Independent I

‘There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain’ Irish Times

‘Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect’ The Times

'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie

‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness’ Marcel Theroux, Guardian

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446450475
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

About the author

Rose Tremain

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) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

www.rosetremain.co.uk

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Praise for Sadler's Birthday

Sadler's Birthday is as far from the stereotype of a young woman's first novel as it can be. It is a masterly study of a lonely but loyal man that is deeply felt, intelligent and often touchingly funny. I liked it very much

Angus Wilson

A first novel of remarkable talent; never a foot set wrong

Financial Times

Brilliant... A quintessentially English writer - her work has a charm and finesse, a civilised irony

Guardian

She is a magical storyteller - it is as an artist that she excels

New Statesman

This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in English

Daily Telegraph