Rose Tremain | Writer

Rose's most recent novel TRESPASS a stunning psychological thriller set in the Cevennes (Chatto, 2010) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and was a Richard and Judy Book Club Spring Choice for 2011.

A film adaptation of MUSIC AND SILENCE is in the works for producers Dan Lupovitz and Alexandra Stone and BBC Films. Martin Sherman is writing the script and Lone Scherfig - ONE DAY and the BAFTA and Academy Award-nominated for AN EDUCATION - is attached as director.

THE ROAD HOME, a popular winner of the Orange Broadband Prize in 2008, was developed as a 90-minute television film for the BBC, adapted by Andrea Gibb for producer Lynn Horsford and executive producer Hilary Salmon.

RESTORATION, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and filmed in 1995, had its world stage premiere at the Salisbury Playhouse in April 2009, adapted and directed by Francis Matthews.

Rose's short story MOTH from the collection THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON (2005) was adapted for film by director François Ozon as RICKY, starring Alexandra Lamy and Sergi Lopez. The film screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival (February 2009) before going on general release in France and elsewhere.

Rose recently revisited the Wallis Simpson story and her radio play THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON starring Elizabeth McGovern as Wallis and Miriam Margolyes as Maitre Blum was transmitted in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre slot in December 2010. Gordon House produced for Goldhawk Essential.

Rose's television adaptation of French nineteenth century classic Honoré de Balzac's EUGENIE GRANDET is in development with Lime Pictures.

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