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The dystopian London at the heart of Roma Tearne’s novel is frozen under endless winter. As the snow begins to fall and the ice begins to form, Hera’s life is thrown into chaos when her brother, Aslam ...

Born to a Sinhalese mother and Tamil father, Roma Tearne left Sri Lanka when she was just 10 years old. Displacement, exile and migration are frequent themes in her fiction so The Last Pier, focusing ...

On 19 May this year the president of Sri Lanka officially declared the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, apparently bringing to an end 26 years of civil conflict. The duration, as well as the complex ethnic ...

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Brixton Beach, Tearne's previous novel, concerned a migrant's journey from war-torn Sri Lanka to oppressive England and was an engaging but flawed read. This follows a similar journey but adds a real ...

Everyone loves a wartime English country house novel (think The Remains of the Day, Atonement or Little Stranger). You already know that Cook will be ringing her hands in the kitchen, as beautiful ...

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It is August, 1964. A ship from Colombo is docking at Southampton. Roma Tearne is waving at the shore, her father waving back from the observation platform at the Ocean Terminal. Except she’s not. She ...

Roma Tearne is one of those writers who manage to interweave the political and personal to tremendous effect. She is also an accomplished painter. Tearne was just 10 when her family fled Sri Lanka, ...