...together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world.

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.