Rose Tremain ¿s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize ( The Road Home ), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year ( Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ( Sacred Country ). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata , was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE