But the emotional and intellectual truth of those characters is timeless. It's annoying because it implies a kind of shallow emptiness, and I don't really think my books have that." As this comment suggests, she is equally accomplished with the twentieth century and the challenges of contemporary life, and she is successful in her novels, whatever the distance from the present day, in creating timeless emotional and intellectual truth. She is, as interviewer Sylvia Brownrigg declared in
Long Island Newsday (12 July 1998), "one of the most exciting, inventive and humane of contemporary British novelists."
Rose Thomson was born 2 August 1943 to Keith Nicholas Home Thomson and Viola Mabel (Dudley) Thomson. Born in London, she grew up there and attended Francis Holland School, then the Sorbonne in Paris, where she received a diploma in literature in 1963. She then read English at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and received a B.A. with Honours there in 1967. After two years of teaching French and history in a primary school, she spent another year as an editor at British Printing Corporation Publications in London. From 1971 on she was a writer, and for the most part a full-time writer, though she was a part-time lecturer on the teaching staff at the Creative Writing course of the University of East Anglia from 1988 to 1995.
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