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... they are places that don't belong
to geography but to time.
Saul Steinberg
Roma Tearne left Sri Lanka with her family, at the start of the civil unrest during the 1960s. She trained as a painter & filmmaker at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford and then was Leverhulme artist in residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Her 9th novel, The Afterword, will be published in the spring of 2025.
Novels
Alfred Hickling
The Guardian
...Tearne has preserved the emotional impact of this sad historical chapter in three remarkable novels dedicated to what has become "the invisible story of the British empire".
Mosquito, Bone China, Brixton Beach
Paul Simon
Morning Star
A bleak and beautiful novel.
The White City
Jon Snow, Newscaster
Channel 4 News
Beautifully written and observed, a richly woven plot. Roma Tearne leads us seamlessly between the intensity of art, love in a warm climate, and acute human suffering.
The Road to Urbino
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