Rosie by Rose Tremain

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Rose Tremain or Rosie as she was then grew up in postwar London a city still partly in ruins where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when she is ten years old everything changes. She loses her father her house her school her friends and is dispatched to a freezing boardingschool in Hertfordshire. Slowly though the teenage Rosie escapes from the cold world of the Fifties into a place of inspiration and friendship where a young writer is su Paperback softback