Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Writing
Her influences include William Golding author of Lord of the Flies and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel 100 Years of Solitude and the magical realism style. Her story was publiRose Tremaind in the 'Earth' collection. Awards and honors
2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist Merivel: A Man of His Time
2008 Orange Prize The Road Home
1999 Whitbread Award Music and Silence
1994 Prix Femina Étranger Sacred Country
1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Sacred Country
1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Restoration
1984 Giles Cooper Award Temporary Shelter (play)


Selected bibliography


Novels
Sadler's Birthday (1976) ISBN 0-356-08387-X
Letter to Sister Benedicta (1978) ISBN 0-354-04353-6
The Cupboard (1981) ISBN 0-354-04769-8
Journey to the Volcano (1985) ISBN 0-241-11651-1
The Swimming Pool Season (1985) ISBN 0-241-11496-9
Restoration (1989) ISBN 0-241-12695-9
Sacred Country (1992) ISBN 1-85619-118-4
The Way I Found Her (1997) ISBN 1-85619-409-4
Music and Silence (1999) ISBN 1-86056-027-X
The Colour (2003) ISBN 0-7011-7296-7
The Road Home (2008) ISBN 978-0-09-947846-1
Trespass (2010 W.