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- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with a seductive Swiss botanist allows him to dream of an honorable future. But back home, his loyalty and medical skill are about to be tested to the limit, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc.
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On Foolishness and Mortality
- By Ilana on 12-27-14
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The Gustav Sonata
- A Novel
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist.
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Loyalty and Other Human Foibles
- By Ilana on 10-07-16
By: Rose Tremain
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Music and Silence
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realizes that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Clair understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.
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Can Rose Tremain Write a BAD Book?
- By Cariola on 04-30-09
By: Rose Tremain
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Trespass
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey....
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Saved by the amazing Juliet Stevensen
- By Eleanor Corner on 02-11-13
By: Rose Tremain
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Jilly Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected.
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Restoration
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Paul Daneman
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From Rose Tremain comes the Booker Prize short-listed novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” ( New York Times). Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise.
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I Fell Under the Spell
- By Ilana on 04-24-14
By: Rose Tremain
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Merivel
- A Man of His Time
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with a seductive Swiss botanist allows him to dream of an honorable future. But back home, his loyalty and medical skill are about to be tested to the limit, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc.
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On Foolishness and Mortality
- By Ilana on 12-27-14
By: Rose Tremain
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The Gustav Sonata
- A Novel
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist.
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Loyalty and Other Human Foibles
- By Ilana on 10-07-16
By: Rose Tremain
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Music and Silence
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realizes that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Clair understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.
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Can Rose Tremain Write a BAD Book?
- By Cariola on 04-30-09
By: Rose Tremain
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Trespass
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey....
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Saved by the amazing Juliet Stevensen
- By Eleanor Corner on 02-11-13
By: Rose Tremain
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Jilly Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected.
By: Rose Tremain
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- TiffanyD
- 03-01-17
Some problematic supporting characters
What did you love best about The Colour?
I thought the depiction of the New Zealand settler's life and then the gold rush was wonderfully written, especially scenes of how easily the weather can destroy everything human-built. Harriet, Lillian and even Joseph were all great characters with whom you could muster various degrees of sympathy. The reader was also quite engaging.
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My biggest complaint was that Maori nursemaid and the Chinese farmer both struck me as a variation of that Hollywood trope, "the magical black man." Unlike some other supporting characters, who somehow still come across as the main characters in their own story, these two seem to exist more to provide character development for a "more important" (white) person.
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- Alison
- 06-10-06
An almost perfect experience
This is a beautifully-written and very engaging novel, very well-read by Ms Bron. The characters, particularly Harriet, are rounded and believable and the story builds well from the nature of the people and their relationships with one another. The only irritating flaw was the over-dramatised psychic connection between the young boy, Edwin, and his Maori nurse, Pare. This relationship and its consequences were the only part of the story which felt over-written, despite the length and sweep of the narrative. I didn't want the book to end.
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- Dr Sophie Henshaw
- 06-27-19
I love Rose Tremain but...
I'm a big fan of Rose Tremain's work, I think she's an amazing writer and this is why I chose this book. However, there are many flaws in this story. The main character, Harriet, is interesting, but her husband Joseph Blackstone is about as unpleasant and uninteresting as you can get. The writer hints he has some form of autism and that he is in fact also extremely selfish.
About two thirds of the way through the book, I found hearing about him almost unbearable and at that point seriously considering stopping listening and asking for a refund. It was so miserable and long drawn out.
Also, too many side characters were introduced and details about their lives totally irrelevant to the plot - like what one miner would buy his mother if he found gold.
Overall I would say this is a harrowing tale, at times unbearably so. Not exactly riveting or entertaining.
I far prefer Rose's other books - most notably Restoration, which in my view is near perfect.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-16-18
beautifully read
disappointing that the audible tagline came almost on top of the last words spoken which took away from the ending.
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- Darcy
- 09-05-22
Another sold adventure from Rose Tremain
I love the way Rose Tremain can write about so many different time lines, her character development is solid, and I always get a feeling these characters are real. I learn from these books also, her history of the places and events is very grounding for the story. I was in New Zealand before I read this book and now I want to go back to explore the places she wrote about. The narrator is superb. She is by far one of my most favorite authors. Lush and poetic, heartbreak and triumph, so beautiful.
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- Stephen Hoyle
- 09-20-07
13hrs and 29 minutes out of my life
First let me say I am a huge fan of Rose Tremain and was therefore excited about downloading and listening to this book. However, out of the 50+ audio books I’ve heard this is the first book I ever felt so disappointed about that I felt the need to write a review.
The first problem is the narrator, Eleanor Bron, and the production crew. I normally have no problem understanding even the heaviest English accent yet I found myself rewinding the book many times to try to understand what Ms. Bron had said. She sounds as if she is talking with a mouth full of marbles. On top of that there are volume changes between sentences where you can tell that she stopped and restarted later and even times where you can hear production cues that the listener is not supposed to hear.
As for the content of the book itself; the first two thirds of the book is tedium. I kept listening and plodding along because I thought “This is THE Rose Tremain, it’s going to get better”. It wasn’t until the last third of the book that anything substantial happened and even then it was a disappointment. Almost all of the main characters are very unlikable and delusional. The few likable/interesting characters are side characters whose stories are either not followed thru or meet tragic ends.
All in all this entire book was a major disappointment
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- RM Simon
- 01-21-11
A very disappointing Tremain
I give Eleanor Bron 4 stars but the book no more than 2. Uninteresting characters, who are mostly unpleasant to boot; somewhere around the middle a serious strain of the spiritual creeps in, primarily but not entirely in the relation of a child to a Maori. I found this, too, wearingly tedious.
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