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Absolutely and Forever Paperback – June 5, 2024

by Tremain Rose (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars 4,499 ratings
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A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers.

Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon’s plans are blown off course, and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together.

Narrating her own story, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, Marianne’s telling use of irony and smart thinking gradually suggest to us that she has underestimated her own worth. We begin to believe that―in the end, supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella―she will find the life she never stops craving. But what we can’t envisage is that beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst has been nursing a secret which will alter everything.
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    RANDOM HOUSE UK
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    June 5, 2024
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    5.08 x 0.51 x 7.76 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    152992250X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1529922509
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ RANDOM HOUSE UK
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152992250X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529922509
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.51 x 7.76 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Connecticut Mom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing love quest
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2024
    I couldn’t put this down! 4 hours start to finish. The author’s description of Marianne’s consistent love for Simon is so complete that you really become entangled in her character. Marianne is only about 16 when you meet her and the book ends in her mid life so I was surprised that the author was able to keep my attention to her passion for this long. Also I am English and I loved the language- “balderdash!” Etc and the upper class attitudes of her parents, and their negative attitudes towards children- very reminiscent!
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  • Sascot
    3.0 out of 5 stars This is a short read.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
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    I have loved Rose Tremain's books so did not hesitate to buy this. She has a wonderful skill in bringing the characters to the page and their relationships with each other. There are surprises in this novel which keep the momentum going but I was utterly taken aback by the abrupt ending after so few pages. Isn't it a bit odd that an author can sell a book of 180 pages for the same amount of money as one of 350 pages ?
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  • Emilia Mori
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rose Tremain rivede la sua gioventù
    Reviewed in Italy on October 23, 2024
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    Una piccola delizia di libro da leggere tutto in un fiato.
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  • PIYALI
    4.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Read about Heart-Break & Desire
    Reviewed in India on November 27, 2024
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    The story of a girl called Marianne who as a teenager has fallen madly in love with Simon Hurst & can only imagine life with him. But life rarely goes according to our imagination. So we follow Marianne & her life & what becomes of her love. Fascinating lucid & devastatingly heart-breaking & yet sumptuous in its story telling. Brilliant.
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  • James
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely and Forever
    Reviewed in Belgium on February 8, 2024
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    très bon livre
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  • tatjana lipovsek
    5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant writing
    Reviewed in Germany on December 6, 2023
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    I am a great fan of Rose Tremain. Each and every one of her books is original, often written with much thought and philosophy behind it, and yet it is clear and light to read. Her books are not only about a plot (which is always gripping) but also about her style of writing, wit, and great insight into the psychology of humans. She really knows how to make the reader get attached to her charachters. Absolutely and Forever is one of those books with which you want to curl up somewhere cosy and not put it down. I read it in one afternoon.
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  • SusannahB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely and Forever
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2023
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    When the engaging and very naive fifteen-year-old Marianne Clifford falls head over heels in love with eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, she has no qualms about losing her virginity to him in the back of his pale blue Morris Minor because she knows that she loves him absolutely and forever. But when Simon fails his Oxford entrance exams and is sent by his parents to Paris, Simon’s life takes a very different path and one which results in him delivering some very shocking news to Marianne and then breaking off all contact. Cast adrift by her loss of Simon, Marianne does poorly in her O-Levels and then arrives in 1960s London to take a secretarial course without any real clue as to what to do with her life; she thinks even death would be better than the abject misery she feels. Fortunately for Marianne, tall, red-haired Hugo, a family friend, falls totally in love with her and longs to take care of her; unfortunately for Hugo, Marianne is still in love with Simon. What does Marianne do? And when another tragedy befalls her, how will Marianne cope with the outfall?

    A short, but beautifully written coming-of-age tale with an unusual and very engaging heroine who narrates her own story to the reader and whose freshness and appealingly eccentric way of looking at life pulled me immediately into this book from the very first page. Although the novel is brief in length, Rose Tremain captures well Marianne’s teenage years at boarding school (I always enjoy a school setting) and also her life in London during the 1960s where I enjoyed reading about her time working as a secretary to an ‘Agony Aunt’ on Fleet Street. In fact I enjoyed everything about this novel including all of the characters and of how what happened to these characters, although may have appeared quite ordinary on the surface, soon revealed something of a deeper and more complex nature. My only quibble is the length of the novel, which I finished in a couple of hours, but this engaging little story is one that I will read and enjoy again and one that I think will benefit from more than one reading.

    5 Stars.
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