The Great Conversation: an exclusive short story by Rose Tremain
A new year's trip into Exmoor leaves two old friends lost in the wilderness – unable to find the words they had been longing to say
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A new year's trip into Exmoor leaves two old friends lost in the wilderness – unable to find the words they had been longing to say
Author Rose Tremain reflects on our collective losses and, as a result, how the very essence of her own fiction writing may be in peril
Twenty five years after the Princess of Wales died, novelist Dame Rose Tremain imagines her life today in an exclusive short story