#rose tremain

“This is one of the troubles and wonders of childhood: you imagine things wrongly. And later, when the truth is known - assuming there is an absolute truth - the unwinding of the imagined thing is tangled, because the first image keeps on obstinately breaking through. You’re adrift in mystery and ambiguity. And yet for a writer’s imagination, the unfixed place is sometimes a promising place to dwell.” 

- Rose Tremain, Rosie: Scenes From a Vanished Life

When the bookshops reopened over Christmas, I got thoroughly over excited and made some spontaneous purchases. So far, they have paid off. I am so excited to read this book, as it is set in the court of Charles II, which is something I have never explored before. Has anyone read this?