Tremain, Rose (1943– )

English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. The historical novel Restoration (1989), perhaps her best-known work, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (and filmed in 1995). Music and Silence won the 1999 Whitbread Award for best novel and The Road Home (2008) won the Orange Prize for fiction.

Short-story collections include The Colonel's Daughter (1982), The Garden of the Villa Mollini (1986), and Evangelista's Fan (1994). Other novels include Sacred Country (1992) The Way I Found Her (1997), and The Colour (2003).