Rose Tremain at the Wimbledon Bookfest

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Rose Tremain at the Wimbledon Bookfest

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Oct 3, 2016

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The novelist in conversation, with Michael Caines, about her latest novel, The Gustav Sonata, and forty years as a published author.

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