In 'Absolutely and forever by Rose Tremain,' readers are invited into a quiet yet powerful meditation on love that transcends time, capturing the essence of enduring connection with poetic precision.
Absolutely and Forever: A Promise Beyond Time
Rose Tremain crafts a narrative where love is not fleeting but absolute and eternal—offering readers a deeply moving reminder that true connection defies the passage of time and lingers as an unbroken thread in the soul.
The Weight of Memory and Longing
Through layered storytelling, Tremain explores how memory shapes enduring bonds, revealing that the deepest love is not only felt in the moment but anchored in the quiet, lasting echoes of shared silence and presence.
Legacy of the Heart
In 'Absolutely and forever,' Tremain reminds us that love’s greatest legacy lies not in grand gestures, but in the unwavering truth of being truly seen and held—by others, and by time itself.
As readers close 'Absolutely and forever by Rose Tremain,' they carry forward a message that resonates deeply: love endures, unbroken and eternal. This timeless truth invites us to cherish every moment with intention. Discover the depth of Tremain’s world—where the heart remembers, and love never fades.
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Rose Tremain Discover more of the author's books, see similar authors, read book recommendations and more.
I was warned that this book was somewhat melancholy, and in a way it is. Absolutely and Forever is about first love, specifically Marianne Clifford's falling in love at fifteen with handsome. I've had mixed experiences with Rose Tremain's books, enjoying some and struggling with others.
Absolutely and Forever was shortlisted for last year's Walter Scott Prize for Histo. Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020.
She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. " Absolutely and Forever is the coming-of-age story of a girl, Marianne, from a well-to-do family-boarding school, tennis courts, ponies-who, aged 15, falls 'absolutely and forever' in love with a boy. It doesn't work out.
The story may not be unusual in itself but in Rose Tremain's hands it's so 'funny, piercing, singular', as one critic described it, that it turns into a. Absolutely and Forever Written by Rose Tremain Review by Douglas Kemp England in the late 1950s and early ´60s. Marianne Clifford comes from a comfortable, complacent middle-class background.
Public-school educated, her life is shaped by her schoolgirl love affair with an older boy, Simon Hurst, which starts when she is fifteen. This is a delightfully told narrative of Marianne's life in. As a story of sexual awakening, marriage and family ties, Absolutely and Forever is firmly rooted in the 1960s.
Tremain's depiction of life in that heady time is realised in full colour. It also sits comfortably within Tremain's oeuvre, which continues to live and sparkle as a sort of alternative history of humanity. My Review Absolutely & Forever is one of the six books on the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024.
(You can find a list of all the shortlisted books here along with information about previous shortlisted books and prize winners.) I have read several of Rose Tremain's previous books, including The Colour, The Gustav Sonata (shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.