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The American Lover by Rose Tremain

Vintage Books would like to invite 10 library-based reading groups to read and review The American Lover by Rose Tremain.

Each participating group will receive:

10 copies of the book
2 A3 posters
50 bookmarks
20 review cards to be returned to The Reading Agency by 30 November

To take part, please log in and complete the survey below by 12 October.

About the book

Shortlisted for the 2014 BBC National Short Story Award and the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s’ Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster’s cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter’s demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country).

She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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