The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
  • Published: 30 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780099268567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $30.00

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

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Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson is a masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning Rose Tremain

A masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning and bestselling Rose Tremain.

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American for whom Edward Vlll abdicated the throne, is on her deathbed in her Paris flat, closely guarded by her lawyer who will not allow her any visitors. An East German border guard, redundant after the fall of the Berlin Wall, tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland.A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his ‘frame’ – or does he?

‘Moving and tragic... The darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection’ Daily Express
‘Classic, breathtaking Tremain’ Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

‘Mordantly perceptive tales’ Sunday Times
  • Published: 30 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780099268567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $30.00
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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 The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

Mordantly perceptive tales

Sunday Times

Written with the deft imagination we've come to know and love from Rose Tremain

Good Housekeeping

Sprightly and inventive

Daily Telegraph

Moving and tragic...the darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection

Express

Her exactness and lightness of touch in scene-setting are used to superb effect in her short stories...Tremain is restless in her exploration of voices

Independent on Sunday

Classic, breathtaking Tremain

Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

This collection is a jewel-box containing gems of near perfection... She's a consistently superior writer. Do yourself - and literature - a service: Read her

Globe & Mail

A distinguished collection

Stephanie Cross, Observer

Rose Tremain is a prolific and much lauded writer but here she is at her best

Rebecca Newman, Daily Telegraph

Painful moments of self-revelation are expertly drawn

Sunday Herald

Striking collection of stories

Sunday Telegraph