Absolutely and Forever

'Gorgeous' Observer * 'Profoundly moving' Financial Times * 'Electrifying' Daily Mail<BR><BR>How do you find the courage to make your own life? An unputdownable novel about first love set in 1960s London from Sunday Times bestselling Rose Tremain<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'A perfect Tremain novel... English, dark and yearning... Remarkable... Tremain shows us the things that make every human life extraordinary' The Times<BR><BR>'A complex tale of becoming that's moving, evocative and mesmerising in its acuity' Mail on Sunday<BR><BR><BR>*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*<BR>* Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction *<BR><BR>READERS LOVE ABSOLUTELY AND FOREVER:<BR><BR>'Heartrending, funny, unputdownable' 5*****<BR><BR>'An undoubted modern classic' 5*****<BR><BR>'Marianne will remain with me as a friend' 5*****<BR><BR>'A masterclass in character and world building ... the writing is just sublime' 5*****