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  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128662
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 46

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (Storycuts)



Wallis Simpson lies dying in her Paris flat, glimpsing memories of her life as a young woman as the fog of forgetfulness descends.

Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull little man with no name, it is deeper remembrances that engulf her on her death bed, blotting out the inconsequential details of her life.

Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128662
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 46

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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