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DescriptionAt the moment that Colonel Browne is preparing for his later afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car, 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. Author descriptionRose 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). |