Product Description

At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his later afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102044 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Publisher
'Demonstrates a wry talent' Guardian
'A true writer of fiction...A writer whose every book has been a pleasure' Scotsman

At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alpenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the cuilmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and thousands of very small lies...

'Rose Tremain goes from strength to strength. The Colonel's Daughter is a winner...a riveting and satisfying read' New Statesman

'Dialogue and off-beat humour are spot on' Daily Telegraph

About the Author
Rose Tremain won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country), the Sunday Express Book of the Year and the Booker Prize Shortlist (Restoration), the Dylan Thomas Short Story Award (The Colonel's Daughter), a Giles Cooper Award (for the play Temporary Shelter) and the Angel Literary Award (twice).

Customer Reviews

Colonel's Daughter
I had just been on a Rose Tremain binge, The Colour and Restoration were fabulous i could not put them down.I read one right after the other.
I decided to buy three more of her books based on my enjoyment of her stuff and because i had read a review on Amazon that Rose does just not produce anything that is not good.
Well i started the Colonel's Daughter somehow missing the fact that it was a book of short stories and wondered why i was getting introduced to so many seemingly unrelated characters.
I realized my folly but couldn't go on. I will maybe go back to it but it really was no where near as good as the above mentioned novels.I was not hooked.
Very dissapointing.