Tremain (Restoration ) turns in a low-key but emotionally potent look at the melancholia of migration for her 14th book. Olev, a 42-year-old widower from an unnamed former east bloc republic ...

Tremain's 1989 novel Restoration showcased the writer’s near ... sad lives of its protagonists. Rose Tremain has said of her own craft, “I suspect that many writers deceive themselves about ...