Do you love me?” Rose Tremain’s mother kept asking her daughter at the end of her life. After more than 40 years of not drawing on her own life in her fiction, Tremain has written a memoir. “I don’t want to write the sort of memoir that slags people off and takes vengeance,” she says firmly. “She said to me: ‘Come on Mum, I want to know about Nan,’ ” Tremain recalls. “I think, really?

Source: The Guardian April 07, 2018 09:56 UTC