All twenty novels have been repackaged with smart new cover artwork, and are – or soon will be – available in both physical and digital form. See individual titles below. As a lover of physical books I recommend you try your local bookshop or library, but if you draw a blank they are available from Amazon through the links below.
Daughter of the House.
London 1919. The Great War is over and London lies on the brink of an uncertain future. With the misery of war in the past, hope begins to emerge for the women who have waited at home. Nancy Wix is just such a woman. Born into a down-at-heel theatrical family, Nancy has always known that the visions she has seen since she was a child will set her apart from her peers. A chance encounter with a gifted medium reveals a way in which she might save her family’s theatre – for this is the age of Spiritualism, and Nancy’s gift will her see her star rise at a time when bereaved families are desperate to hold on to their dead sons.
As the roaring Twenties dawn, Nancy strives to break free from the rigid bonds of society and find her own place. The only thing that could hold her back is her love for an unattainable man…
The Illusionists
London in 1885 is a threatening place for a young woman of limited means. Eliza’s choices lie between marriage and stifling domesticity, or a downwards spiral to the streets. But Eliza is modern before her time and she won’t compromise.
At a run-down theatre she meets Devil Wix – a charismatic showman who is set on running his own company. His right-hand man is Carlo Boldoni, an irascible dwarf whose dazzling talent eclipses everything Devil tries to do. Forever linked to Devil by a boyhood tragedy is Jasper Button, a gifted artist, and the fourth member of this strange crew is Heinrich, an enigmatic engineer. As the seductive and dangerous world of the Palmyra Theatre snares them all, it falls to Eliza to try to keep the peace between the men who love her.
Too late, she realises that her fortune and her future depend on Devil and his companions. Offstage as well as on, Eliza must learn that magic takes many forms.
What is real, and what is just an illusion?
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The Kashmir Shawl – Winner of the epic category, Romantic Novel of the Year.
A sweeping story of wartime, family secrets, friendship and forbidden love set against the stunning backdrop of 1940s Kashmir.
Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the exquisite heart of the Vale of Kashmir lies the lakeside city of Srinagar, where the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But as the fighting draws closer the men leave the city, and life becomes less frivolous for the women left behind. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship, and by the time she is reunited with her husband, the innocent Welsh bride has become a different woman. Years later, when Mair Ellis clears out her father’s house, she finds an exquisite antique shawl, a lock of child’s hair wrapped within its folds. Tracing her grandparents’ roots back to Kashmir, Mair follows the intricate threads of the shawl’s history and in doing so unravels the secrets of a generation.
‘A superbly researched and vivid evocation of wartime Kashmir and Ladakh’ Daily Mail ‘
A spellbinding tale. Beautifully written, honest and compassionate…a delight from start to finish’ Daily Express
‘An epic tale…A complicated entanglement of family secrets, love during wartime and dangerous liaisons. For fans of Maggie O’Farrell’ Red
‘A superbly written novel, marvellously descriptive and especially evocative of the war years . . . a gorgeous treat’ Choice
‘Thomas’ portrayal of a young wife struggling to cope with life in wartime Kashmir, her husband’s indifference to her and her attraction to a charismatic mountaineer is beautifully written, touching and believable’ The Daily Express
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Lovers & Newcomers
Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, the omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can’t be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. The past is revealed – and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.
Constance
Constance Thorne was a foundling, a child left by her mother for strangers to find. Forty years on, without ever being able to discover her true identity, she has put all her energy into creating a flawless shell for herself.
As a child, she was musical, her sister Jeanette was deaf. One of them was dark, the other sunny. Yet they both fell in love with the same man.
When she hears the news that her sister is dying, the last thing Connie wants is to leave her Bali home and return to London. But with the bitterness of betrayal still between them, Connie and Jeanette have to learn to forgive each other.
Surrounded by family, can Constance make her peace with who she really is – and who she loves? Click here to buy
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Iris & Ruby – Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year
Silent and claustrophobic, Iris Black’s Cairo house is disturbed by the unannounced arrival of her troubled granddaughter, Ruby. Ruby has run away from home to throw herself on her grandmother’s unwilling protection, but slowly a bond is formed as the two open up to each other.
Ruby helps Iris to recover her memories of glittering World War Two Cairo, and her love for Captain Xan Molyneux. Iris’s early devastation has shaped the lives of her daughter and granddaughter as well as her own – and it leads the two women into terrible jeopardy in the sands of the Egyptian desert. Click here to buy
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Sun at Midnight
Alice Peel is a scientist, believing in observation, measurement, and rational deduction. Yet she has left her home in Oxford and her unfaithful husband and embarked for the farthest end of the earth. Antarctica.
James Rooker is on the run, as he has been since he was a boy. He has taken a job as far away as he can get – on a small Antarctic research station.
Alice discover a blue and silver world lit by constant sunlight. She is unprepared for the beauty of it, and for the claustrophobia of the tiny station shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation begins to warp their reason, and the air crackles with tension and then with danger.
In Antarctica Alice and Rooker discover that their lives will never be the same.
If they survive. Click here to buy
If My Father Loved Me
Sadie’s father is dying: the man who has spent his life creating exquisite perfumes for other women is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make her peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood.
As she faces the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down and she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of the ‘aunties’ who populated her father’s past sets off a train of events that even Sadie cannot control. Click here to buy
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The Potter’s House
An earthquake ravages the coast of a Greek island. In the aftermath a stranger appears, an Englishwoman, destitute apart from the clothes she wears.
Olivia is another English woman, married to a local man, the mother of two boys. She welcomes the stranger into her home. But as Kitty slowly becomes part of her family and the life of the village, time and history seem to lose their definition and fear grows in Olivia.
What is real? What is the threat?
Who is Kitty, and where has she come from? Click here to buy
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White
For Sam McGrath, an encounter with a woman on a turbulent flight is enough to give his life the meaning it lacks. Crazily, he follows her out to Nepal.
Finch Buchanan is flying out as doctor to an Everest expedition. In the Himalayas she will be reunited with a man she has never forgotten.
Al Hood has made a promise to his daughter. Once he has stood on this last summit, he will give up the mountains for ever.
Everest towers over the group, beautiful and destructive. At her feet the two men and a woman with her own dreams play out their conflicts to the inevitable finale. Click here to buy
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Moon Island
Five old clapboard houses look out over an untamed coast towards a deserted island. Lonely, resentful May Duhane is on holiday in one of the houses with her father and sister. Leonie Beam in the neighbouring house is isolated too, in her unhappy marriage. She confides in Elizabeth, the ageing widow who is the keeper of the beach’s secrets.
Meanwhile May discovers the hidden diary of a dead girl. Reading it, she slips out of her own world and immerses herself in another. And then she begins to feel that she must follow in the dead girl’s footsteps…
Every Woman Knows A Secret
How do you survive the worst tragedy that could ever happen?
What happens when you fall in love with the one person you should hate most in all the world?
Shocked and almost deranged by bereavement, Jess is powerless to resist her attraction to Rob, twenty years her junior. As their love affair threatens to blow her family apart, Jess struggles to defuse the crisis that threatens all she holds dear. Click here to buy
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A Simple Life
Hidden beneath the surface of the family life she shares with her successful husband Matthew and their two sons, lies a shameful secret that has haunted Dinah for fifteen years. But when a chance encounter brings the past into sharp focus once more, Dinah realises that she can no longer deny the impossible choice Matthew once forced her to make. She decides to risk everything – her husband and sons and her perfect life, in order to claim what was once hers. Click here to buy
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Other People’s Marriages
The husbands and wives of five families enjoy a comfortable life of school runs, Sunday barbecues and shared holidays until Nina Cort returns to the cathedral city where they all live. Nina is rich, sophisticated, and newly widowed and she is an unfamiliar thread in the old pattern. Her arrival uncovers hidden flaws in the smooth fabric. In the course of a dramatic year the five families and Nina discover that you can never truly understand other people’s marriages. Perhaps not even your own…
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All My Sins Remembered
Clio and her cousin Grace are friends and opposites. With Clio’s brother Julius and Jake they formed a charmed circle in the innocent days before the Great War.
In old age Clio remembers for her biographer their linked stories of war, bohemian Fitzrovia and Thirties Berlin but she keeps a different story for herself. There are lies and secrets, jealous loyalties and hopeless love – and Grace is the lovely, destructive siren at the heart of the circle. Click here to buy
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A Woman Of Our Times
Betrayed wife and small shopkeeper to successful business woman named in the gossip columns – with guts and determination, Harriet Peacock has come a long way. But at the pinnacle of her success, Harriet discovers that in love as well as business the quickest way to a goal is often the riskiest.
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Bad Girls, Good Women
On the brink of the Sixties, two runaway girls plunge into Soho life. Julia chooses finally chooses marriage and a Dorset manor house, Mattie strives for success as an actress. Each has to overcome adversities but – despite tragedy and betrayal – their friendship endures over three decades.
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Strangers
Annie and Steve are strangers until one ordinary morning they become victims of a terrorist bombing. Injured and trapped in darkness under the rubble, they talk to ward off fear and death – telling each other secrets they have shared with no-one else. With such a bond between them, how can they return to the old world and their separate lives?
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The White Dove
Amy Lovell is a beautiful, aristocratic young woman born into a life of privilege. But she is also a radical, increasingly drawn to a world less confined than her own. She trains as a nurse and her politics lead her to a meeting with Nick Penry, a proud Welsh miner. Their love defines the gulf between them and their shared beliefs draw them out to Spain, where the tragedy of the civil war means that love and pain become inseparable.
Sunrise – Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year
A shocking discovery about the man she loves drives Angharad Owain to London, pregnant and penniless, where she struggles to make a life for herself and her child. But before she can allow herself real happiness she must confront the shadows of the past.
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Follies
Three very different young women come to study at Oxford, where they share a magical old house. The experience of one unforgettable year changes each of them, but seals a friendship that will last for ever.
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Celebration
Bell Farrer is a rising young wine journalist who finds herself caught between the old world and the new – and the men who represent them. Old rivals Baron Charles de Gillesmont, reclusive owner of Chateau Reynard and Valentine Gordon, of Dry Stone Wineries in California are in conflict again. Which one of them will win the day?
Rosie Thomas 
Just found and read my first book authored by you..The White Dove. It seems to me you left the door open for a sequel Would that ever be possible
Hi Dianne – this is one of my very early books. So pleased you came across it, was it in the library? I’ve never done a sequel, so the answer is I don’t really think so. But on the other hand, the big novel I am currently finishing seems to call for one, so never say never!
Rosie
Yes, please. We need to know what happened to Amy and Charles in the War. And if Paloma went back to Spain?
I also just read my first book by you, The White Dove. Now I want to find every other one possible. Such great reaing.
There are lots to choose from, Dianne! Happy reading and thanks for getting in touch.
I just finshed “The Kashmir Shawl” and absolutely loved it I couldn’t put it down and devoured it in two days. As I am from Wales (Carmarthen in the South but now living in Oregon, USA) I loved the welsh connection. Am now going to get ALL your other books to read. Keep writing.
thank you, Maureen. Very pleased to hear you enjoyed it.
Loved the Kashmir Shawl, and have made a list of all your books! You’ve done a lot of writing, lucky me!!!
Thanks, Joanne. Twenty one novels and one travel book, at last count…
JUST finished the 22nd (see blog page….)
Had the good fortune to find a copy of ”The Kashmir Shawl” ..It’s the one book I lend to
friends and demand its return, so that I can lend it further for a wonderful read.I have since
found at least 6 other of your books …of which “”Iris and Ruby”” is the most heart-warming….
so far,
Thanks, Alice. I hope you will enjoy the new one, out next March. Title still under review….
Hello Rosie – I have read the White Dove in Dutch and its absolutely one of my favourite books. If I need a good cry – I just pick up this book and cry along with Amy
Valeria, that’s just brilliant. I love hearing that readers have enjoyed my books in translation. It’s doubly special.
Hello Rosie,
I have read Iris & Ruby, Sun at Midnight and most recently White, and have thoroughly enjoyed all of them. I am so interested in your novels because you capture other countries so well through sounds, culture, food and atmosphere. I am currently half way through Border Crossing – what a journey! It sounds like a test of endurance for the competitors, not just the vehicles!
I have recently bought another 7 of your books and will borrow the rest from the library. over the coming months. I think one of the reasons I find your stories so enthralling is because you include interesting characters of all ages. The romance is not the only aspect of your novels – the reader learns a lot about other people, other cultures and different experiences. Thank you.
Kim (Brighton)
Dear Kim – THANK you. That’s a lot of books! I’m so pleased to hear that you like them, and the variety of settings and people. Travelling and thinking and picking up stories is absolutely the best bit of the job.
Very best wishes – and happy reading.
Hello Rosie
My friend and I have both read the “Kashmir Shawl” (she lent it to me) – I have now passed it on. Absolutely wonderful! I love finding new authors and though this is my first of yours, it will certainly not be the last! I note you have another coming out in March – she had, she thought, heard that a sequel to the Kashmir Shawl was coming – is that so?
Lynne (Warwickshire), Val (East Sussex)
Hi Lynne, I’m glad you both enjoyed the book. Thanks for taking the time to drop a line.
Dear Lynne – forgive this slow reply to the second part of your message – I think I must have overlooked it when I originally read it.
The new book is now coming on February 27 -it’s not a sequel, though. Something completely different! Am quite excited about it, and am hoping very much that readers will enjoy it too.
Dear Rosie, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading each of your books on my Kindle – The Kashmir Shawl is my favourite. The rosiethomasauthor web page indicates that your earlier books will soon be ready in digital format. Can you give any indication when they will be available?
Hello Christa, thanks for asking about this. All my older titles have recently been reacquired by HarperCollins, my present publishers, and I think the plan is to digitise them as soon as possible. I hope that at least some of these books will be available as e-books to tie in with the publication of THE ILLUSIONISTS in February. I’ll write a post here as soon as I know for certain.
Hi Rosie
Thank you – we will look out for it then – will let you know how much we enjoy it!
Regards
Lynne Nicholls
I am a massive fan of yours having read almost all of your books. I have just read White again and enjoyed it just as much if not more than the first time nine years ago. I also bought White for my husbands consultant when he was a patient at our local hospice. Dr Ellie Smith, herself an avid climber took the book on one of her trips and found it invalid when she ended up on hospital in Khatmandu after suffering a viral infection. She found it truly inspiring and as almost all of the medics spoke little or no English your work of art was a treasured possession. Thank you Rosie I am in awe of your talent in all that you achieve.
Dear Nancy ( the heroine of the book I’m writing now is also Nancy – am I mad to think this makes a bond?!) I am so pleased you like the novels, and thank you for taking the trouble to drop me a line. It gave me a lot of pleasure to think of Dr Smith recovering in Kathmandu with a good read to keep her company. I hope she’s fully restored now.
All best wishes, and enjoy your reading.
Keep them coming
Dear Rosie I read the Kashmir Shawl when I was in South Africa this Feb/March and absolutely loved it and am now trying to get some more of your books to read. I have made a list of all your books and there is plenty to choose from – fantastic.
Thank you, Alison – good to hear from you. I am on a brief promotion tour at the moment so please forgive truncated replies to posts.
Hi,I am a great fan and have read border crossing a few years ago and would love to read it again, unfortunately I cannot find it anywhere.Can you help?
Hi Ann, I’m pleased to be able to say that BORDER CROSSING is available again through Amazon. If you’re in the UK here is the link:
All best wishes and thanks for kind words!
Dear Rosie, I love your books and am constantly recommending them to friends. Can I buy them – online – in French? Thank you, Bridget
P.S. I am interested in the ‘patchwork block’ icons, are you a quilter?
Dear Bridget, thank you for recommending my books. There’s no advertisement or marketing ploy to match a word from a friend! I don’t know the answer to your question about French availability, but I will find out and get back to you as soon as I can.
Dear Rosie, I had tried various search options without success, which is why I contacted you. Today I hit on the magic formula – for Amazon at least – it is to put “Thomas Rosie French” in the search box and hey presto, there you are! I have now ordered 6 of your books which I already have in English So now my French knowledge should come on in leaps and bounds!
Oh good! That’s really handy to know – will make a note of it. Presumably it works for other languages too. Deeply impressed by your language commitment, btw… and thanks again for your kind words. Happy reading.
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Hi Rosie, I discovered your books in our local library, Aurora, Ontario, Canada a couple of years ago and thought I had read all of them, but just discovered there are many more that our library does not have!! What a great surprise. I love how ‘meaty’ the stories are and that I can get lost in the lives of the characters. Just finished If My Father Loved Me and wondered if that chocolate cake you refer to – and I can’t remember its name – really exists and if I could find the recipe somewhere? Glad I found you – thanks for many happy hours! Nanett
Oh dear, Nanett – I’m afraid I can’t remember the chocolate cake. I suspect I just made it up … I’m not a baker myself. I’ll have to go back to the book!
I am so pleased to heat that you like my work. There are over 20 novels, and the latest –THE ILLUSIONISTS–is about to be published in paperback by HarperCollins Canada.
Happy reading.
Dear Rosie, I just read a book of yours for the first time, The Kashmir Shawl, having stumbled upon it in the library, and loved it! I am originally from India, now living in the US. Your descriptions of Srinagar, the Lake, and Shalimar Gardens were so picturesque – they brought back vivid memories of my visit there in 1986, when I did some trekking along with a college group with Pahalgam as our base camp. You have captured the beauty, yet unrest and poverty so well.
There’s one thought that has been at nagging me. I wonder why, at the end of the book, when Mair meets Zahra, Farida keeps silent about Zahra’s birth mother when Zahra is unwilling to believe it’s Caroline Bowen. I would have expected Farida to know who Zahra’s birth mother was – she could not have forgotten a white memsahib giving birth in her village. It was right after the baby was born that Farida comes running in to take the baby.
Hello Vinita, thank you for your message – great to hear from you. I’m pleased the book’s setting resonated with you. In response to your pertinent comment – I have to confess that I have written 2 books since finishing the Kashmir Shawl, and I can’t fully recall all the plot details. I promise I’ll go back to the text, and re-examine it in the light of your question. If there is a hole here, I’ll try to put it right in the next edition!
Very best wishes.
Wouldn’t it be great if the Kashmir shawl became a film.
It certainly would, Diana! (Will you mention it to Spielberg, or shall I???)
Not only the Kashmir Shawl – EVERYTHING – I have read by Rosie would make a cracking film! By the way, there was a comment a while back about the chocolate cake – chocolate nemesis – made for Mel’s engagement party in ‘If my father loved me’. There is a recipe from the River Café of that name. Maybe that was the inspiration? http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/food/river-cafe/article2823190.ece
Well spotted, Bridget! My partner (who is the baker around here) claims that this River Cafe recipe doesn’t work in a domestic oven because the volume of ingredients is too large. I dunno – I wouldn’t attempt it myself! Thank you for getting in touch.
Dear Rosie, I have just read my first book of yours The Potter’s House, a great story………I appreciate that it was written a long time ago but something happened that is a rarity for me, I found the ending so dissapointing! I guess I’m just someone who needs to have all the ends tied! I found I desparately needed to know what happened to Kitty/Cary…….not if she lived happily ever after! But just where did she go and was it with Andreas? Just saying! Best Wishes Jane Doherty
Hello Jane, thank you for your message.
SPOILER ALERT: anyone who has not yet read The Potter’s House, stop here!
I’m so sorry the book’s ending disappointed you. I know some readers don’t pick up on the central theme, which is parallel lives. I wanted to examine the way that a catastrophic event in a person’s childhood can alter their future path. So….Kitty and Olivia are the same person. Kitty’s life has been sent off at a tangent by her brother’s tragic death. Olivia’s is the life in which this catastrophe never happened. So, of course Kitty actually died in the earthquake. Andreas is her guardian angel, her spirit guide if you like, who takes her to Halemni and shows her this alternative world. And thus Kitty and Olivia almost become one another – as the story relates. I hope this helps. It’s a darker and more serious book than the packaging suggests, and I can only apologise if you were misled by the cover. I did raise it with my publishers. If you can bear to look at the book a second time, you will see that it’s quite carefully constructed and there are clues along the way – but I think now not quite enough of them.
Apologies again. Enjoy your reading….
I’ve just finished reading this book .
And I’m glad my conclusion of parallel lives is correct!! I guessed pretty much early in the book. I’ve only just discovered your works .. I’ve read this and The Kashmir Shawl
Iris and Ruby waiting!! Looking forward to reading them all
. Xx
I loved The Kashmir Shawl, so much so in fact that it is my pick for my neighborhood book club in November. I am having trouble, however, thinking of suitable questions to ask our gals and wondered if you had any suggestions or a website I could go to.
Dear Sue, thank you for your message – I am SO sorry to have been no help to you in devising questions for your book group. I have been away travelling in remote places for the last 2 months, and have only intermittent access to the internet. I hope your evening was/will be a success – and thank you so much for choosing THE KASHMIR SHAWL.
Hello again Sue. If it’s not too late for your book club evening, I am now back in UK with access to my digital files… I could ping across some questions for discussion if you would like me to? Direct message me with your email address if I can help.
Hi Rosie. I am just in the middle of my tenth book of yours and determined to read all of them. At the moment I am compiling a list to ensure I don’t start reading the same book twice. I noticed I had started The Potters House recently and realised I had already read it. I note that you wrote a sequel to The Illusionists which I read and thoroughly enjoyed. Is this the only book you have written sequel to please? Very happy reader. Thank you so.much. Wendy
Hello Wendy, what a fabulous message!! Thank you for letting me know about the reading project – I love to think of this. And yes, Daughter of the House is the only sequel I have done. It was interesting on a technical level – how much of the back story to include to give new readers the perspective, without annoying the ones who had already read the first book.
Enjoy your reading. Very best wishes.
Hi Rosie, Thank you for explaining the ending of The Potters House, maybe I will get some sleep tonight now, it was driving me crazy trying to work it out!
Hello Ann – thanks for letting me know. I don’t want to give too much away, but I also don’t want readers to be confused…tricky!
Hi Rosie,
I just read the potters house. I couldn’t work out who Cary/ kitty was. I would love it if you would explain it for me?
Many thanks
Hi Emma – you are not the first reader to finish The Potter’s House and be unsure of what actually has happened. Here is the explanation I gave recently to a similar query.
SPOILER ALERT: anyone who has not yet read The Potter’s House, stop here!
The central theme of the novel is parallel lives. I wanted to examine the way that a catastrophic event in a person’s childhood can alter their future path. So….Kitty/Cary and Olivia are the same person. Kitty’s life has been sent off at a tangent by her brother’s tragic death. Olivia’s is the parallel life in which this catastrophe never happened. So, of course Kitty actually died in the earthquake. Andreas is her guardian angel, her spirit guide if you like, who takes her to Halemni and shows her this alternative world. And thus Kitty and Olivia almost become one another – as the story relates. I hope this helps. It’s a darker and more serious book than the packaging suggests, and I can only apologise if you were misled by the cover. I did raise it with my publishers. If you can bear to look at the book a second time, you will see that it’s quite carefully constructed and there are clues along the way – but I think now not quite enough of them.
Apologies again. Enjoy your reading….
Hi, what worries me about this is that Olivia then had a relationship with her brother? I’m sorry but this whole thing just doesn’t gel with me! I just feel really frustrated with the whole thing but maybe I’m being too straightlaced lol
Dear Rosie Thomas
I remember there was a film on television years ago based on your book bad girls good women. I’m looking for it for many years and don’t find it.
The book is my favourite book and i hope you can give me any information if there is a film version too.
Thanks a lot and best regards
Nicole
Hi Nicole, the only book of mine that has made it on to the screen is Every Woman Knows A Secret, which was a TV serial with Siobhan Redmond and Paul Bettany. Is this what you are thinking of?
Hi I have recently read the Potter’s House, I figured out that she might of died in the earthquake, little clues gave it away for me, but I did begin to wonder if they where step sisters, when they seemed so similar, as cary’s father re-married after the brother died . My question is the island of Hilemni a real island in greece, as I love greece and would love to know, or did you base it on another island perhaps.
Hello Ann, I’m glad you unravelled the story. The secret of course is that they are the same people, just in two different versions of a life.
Halemni is an invention, but I put into it lots of details from other real islands. Like you, I love Greece. To research the book I spent a winter season living in a tiny apartment on Tilos, and I drew on that experience a a lot, as most of us never see those islands in the grip of winter.
Thank you for getting in touch, and enjoy your reading.
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I have just finished my third Rosie Thomas book. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed all three. I actually read Strangers many years ago and never forgot it. I wanted to read it again but couldn’t remember the title or author. Thanks to my daughter and google, I found it and read it again. I am hooked! Thank you so much for being such an incredible writer who takes me away and gives me such pleasure.
Sinderely, Judith Dreucci Pittsburgh, PA
Hello Judith, how VERY nice to hear this – and thank you so much for taking time to write to me. In case you want to read on, I think there are about another 20 books out there!
My very best wishes to you.
What I love about your books are the locations of which I have been. I am also a traveller and have been around the world on cruise ships. The Sky and Midnight is the last book I read and I have been to the Antarctic and members of Palmer Station visited the ship and gave lectures. The Kashmir Shawl is probably my favourite so far, I think!!!
Please do not stop writing your wonderful books.
Regards, Mary Forsey-Hood
Thank you so much, Mary. Wonderful to hear from another traveller, especially one of the few who has been down to the Ice. What a privilege that is.
Best wishes, and enjoy all your reading.
Dear Rosie Thomas,
I love your book “ Other people marriages”.
It is a mesmerising prose, deep, observant, beautifully woven.
Thank you very much,
Elizaveta
Hello Elizaveta, I am truly sorry for this late response to your message – something went wrong with my message alerts and I missed several. My apologies for seeming rude, and I am so pleased to hear you enjoyed my book. I wish you very happy reading.
Our Book Club has just finished Iris and Ruby- a very interesting read and beautifully written. However, I can’t find any discussion questions for it . Could you let me know where to find them? Thank you
Dear June, thank you for your message and I am so pleased to hear that you enjoyed Iris and Ruby.
There are no ‘official’ discussion questions. But for me the main themes of the book are mother/daughter relationships and the value of memory, so I think you might talk about how the Iris/Lesley and Lesley/Ruby relationships play out against the bond between Iris and Ruby. Do your members have similar experiences of strong grandmother-granddaughter ties, and why do they think these happen? Would you rather have poor health and good memory in old age, or vice versa? What about the relationship between Ash and Ruby?
Hope this helps.
Very best wishes, and happy reading.
Bonjour Rosie,
J’ai particulièrement aimé vos livres comme le châle de Cachemire , les brumes du Caire et Constance.
J’aimerais savoir quand vous écrirez un nouveau livre du même genre. Il y a des tas de pays pour faire une belle histoire;
Sincères salutations.
Sylvie Van Melderen.
Bonjour Sylvie
I wish I could reply in French!
Just at the moment, my three tiny granddaughters are claiming almost all my time. I have another novel that I am turning over in my mind, but it hasn’t got much further than that.
Thank you so much for the kind words about my books.
My very best wishes.
Dear Rosie.
First I read White in Czech and I was so amazed, that I couldn’t help myself and had to seek another novel written by you. I’ve just finished The Kashmir Shawl in my mother tongue Slovak and need more.
I love the way you write – combination of facts, reality, romance and slowly uncovering secrets. I’m able to visit through your books places I’ve never been to. Your stories really give me the flavour of the culture, the environment, the nature, …
Thank you very much for taking all of us on your journeys with you through your novels.
Stani
Dear Stani, thank you so much for your wonderful message – so good to hear from you. I’m delighted that you are enjoying the books. I don’t know exactly which others are available in Czech, or Slovak, but I will mention your interest to my publishers!
Very best wishes to you.
Dear Rosie
My mother is currently enjoying one of your books, Follies 🙂
Now the character, Chloe, drives a black Renault Gordini. Out of interest, why did you use that particular car, what was the connection? Funny thing is, we own an old black Renault Gordini (original owner was an author/publisher in 1983 when you wrote the book).
Best wishes
Oh dear! I can’t remember at all why I fixed on this make and model…I never owned one myself…I can only guess that at the time it must have been the very coolest and most desirable car I could imagine a young woman driving…times change!
Enjoy your reading, and I’m glad to hear your mother likes the book.
Best wishes