Over the last decade Rose Tremain has shown herself to be one of England's most gifted and exhilarating young writers. The Swimming Pool Season was hailed by The Washington Post as a "seductive book... [Rose Tremain] has a marvelous wit, a generous - not cynical - humor. Her voice is rich, lush, elegant." The Sunday Times (London) says, "The Swimming Pool Season exhibits every literary talent Rose Tremain is very good, she can do anything she likes now." The Independent called Restoration a "most beautiful and original novel" and The New York Times proclaimed it "nothing less than superb." With her new book, Sacred Country, already a popular and critical success in her native land, Rose Tremain has written a novel of extraordinary feeling, humor, and vision that should win for her the larger American readership she so richly deserves. Read Less