![]() ![]() Rosie lives and writes in London, but she is also a keen traveller, mountaineer and skier. She has been writing full time ever since, and that first novel has been followed by a score of others. Her first book was published in 1982, shortly after the birth of her daughter. To write a novel seemed the more promising of the options open to her. ![]() She still feels a debt to the remarkable women who taught her, and who encouraged her to think for herself.Īfter a few years of working in women’s magazines and for a publisher, and by now married to a literary agent, Rosie found herself at home with a new baby son and no job. Rosie read English at St Hilda’s College Oxford, and for the first time in her life felt that she was in the right place at the right time. ![]() To feel an outsider and to be immersed in books was the ideal apprenticeship for a writer. She found the library instead … and read, and read. The school had a strong tradition of music and games, but unfortunately Rosie had no aptitude for hockey and no enthusiasm for Gilbert and Sullivan choruses. ![]() Rosie Thomas was born and grew up in a small village in north Wales.Īfter winning a scholarship, she became a boarder at Howell’s School. ![]()
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