Absolutely and Forever: An electrifying love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

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How do you find the courage to make your own life An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer * 'Profoundly moving' Financial Times * 'Electrifying' Daily Mail How do you find the courage to make your own life An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London from the bestselling Rose Tremain Marianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find true happiness with him. However a twist of fate sees Simon's glittering future dashed and with it Marianne's dreams. He flees the country and Marianne, realising she will now have to make a life of her own, moves to London determined to reinvent herself. But Marianne cannot let go of that first all-encompassing love and all the while Simon is in Paris, nursing a secret that will alter everything. 'A perfect Tremain novel... English, dark and yearning... Remarkable... Tremain shows us the things that make every human life extraordinary' The Times 'A complex tale of becoming that's moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity' Mail on Sunday READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER- 'Heartrending, funny, unputdownable' 5***** 'An undoubted modern classic' 5***** 'Marianne will remain with me as a friend' 5***** 'A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime' 5*****

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PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:
'Stunningly beautiful and deeply moving'

* Simon Schama *
A slim, funny, elegantly breezy coming-of-age story * Sunday Times *
Written with piercing clarity and gentle humour, Absolutely And Forever is a study of the messiness of human relationships, the significance of secrets unspoken and the impact of the choices we make * Independent *
This is a book about the comic, painful, life-long search for human understanding. Not a word is wasted; not a phrase trite. It is mesmerising, masterly and profoundly moving * Financial Times *
[A] delicate, generous-hearted novel * Spectator *

Author Bio

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) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.