Background
Rosie Price was born in 1992 in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Cambridge University, The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Rosie graduated from Cambridge University.
London, United Kingdom
Rosie Price
London, United Kingdom
Rosie Price
Rosie Price was born in 1992 in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Rosie graduated from Cambridge University, where she read English.
Rosie Price had set her sights on being a writer several years before she started work on What Red Was. When Rosie started writing the novel she was working in a literary agency - a job she had held since graduating three years earlier. She initially worked on the book in the evenings and at weekends, but then quickly realised that she needed to “make the leap and commit”. She left her job for a more flexible tutoring role, which allowed her to write in the mornings. The gamble paid off: there was a five-way auction among publishers for What Red Was, and film rights have now been bought by the BBC.
The novel is an intriguing blend: part comedy of manners, part hard-hitting drama. Price was influenced by Edward St Aubyn’s blackly comic Patrick Melrose novels, and the idea that “the more levity and joyful moments you have, the darker you are able to go”. Price was herself the victim of rape, when she was “too young to understand properly”. Through writing the book, she began to make sense of her own experiences, exploring how the assault had changed her view of the world. What Red Was has allowed Price not only to explore her own legacy of trauma, but also to find a way of speaking out - the pros and cons of which are explored in the book.
(A sophisticated and conversation-starting novel of modern...)
2019