Welcome

Thanks for visiting! I'm an author of historical and mainstream fiction with a touch of the fantastic and I'm particularly interested in the intersection of the spiritual and secular, the supernatural and the everyday, the past and the present. I'm passionate about the history of everyday life, and fascinated by the deep, instinctual draw of the land.

Oleanna: Now Available!

"Rose brings a time of historic change to life through passionate characters and lush prose. Oleanna is a true labor of love." Heather Domin, author of The Soldier of Raetia

Short-listed in the 2011 Faulkner-Wisdom competition, Oleanna is set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905. This richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of my great-great-aunts.

Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their farm deep in the western fjordland. A new century has begun, and the world outside is changing, but in the Sunnfjord their world is as small and secluded as the verdant banks of a high mountain lake.

The arrival of Anders, a cotter living just across the farm's border, unsettles Oleanna's peaceful but isolated existence. Sharing a common bond of loneliness and grief, Anders stirs within her the wildness and wanderlust she has worked so hard to tame. When she is confronted with another crippling loss, Oleanna must decide once and for all how to face her past, claim her future, and find her place in a wide new world.

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Available for Kindle US, UK, DE, FR, ES, and IT; Nook; the iBookstore US, UK, CA, and AU; and coming soon to paperback.