The Swimming Pool Season
By Rose Tremain
1985
First Published
3.65
Average Rating
288
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From the author of The Gustav SonataAfter the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. Around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate fabric of the lives of two Miriam's mother, Leni, clever, beautiful and arrogant. Polish Nadia, tortured by the passions of her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes.Over a million Rose Tremain books soldA writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion Independent IThere are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain Irish TimesTremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect The TimesRose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists Salman RushdieTremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness Marcel Theroux, Guardian
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Author
Rose Tremain
Author · 26 books
Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have won many awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Prix Femina Etranger. Restoration, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.
