![]() ![]() That isn’t how Tremain is treated in the literary press much these days. The early Tremain novels on my shelves: own photo I have never felt I wanted to lose my sense nor the physical presence of Rose Tremain as a novelist, though I often wonder why – for my tastes tend to be for writers that are, or seem to me, to be for writers who challenge the world and normative perceptions of it. When I lose interest in a novelist, which is not always because I no longer find them good and compelling writers, I clear the entire works (sold on Ebay if they have selling power with few, even the best, have these days, or donate to friends or charity). ![]() ![]() That novel is stored its respective first edition set, to commemorate my reading pleasure and my sense of the ways that novelist’s production changes shape through their publication history. ![]() The favourites I read as they publish a new novel. I am an obsessive reader and have firm favourites amongst novelists. There are some facts that matter in determining to yourself how you read novels. Let’s start with the personal context of a reflexive reader. Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain (2020) London, Chatto & Windus. ‘… he saw, trailing behind him, the great mistake that had been his belief in himself … ’. ![]()
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