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"one of the most versatile novelists. The scene-setting opening is languorous and beautiful, a disturbing tale and one rich in detail" --Daily Express
`taut, full of suspense, the sense of "wild nature", that she captures so bewitchingly ... this is a dark book' --The Observer
`A writer of particular elegance and control, her story unfolds from its arresting first scene to its luminous final image as gracefully as a ballet'. --The Telegraph
Tremain can write herself across any literary boundary,an intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation'.
--The Sunday Telegraph
`... deft new novel... Tremain is such an assured and measured writer.' -- Spectator
`Tremain expertly maintains the suspense. As one would expect... much more is on offer than the pleasures of detection.' -- Literary Review
`... a novel in which humour, pathos and suspense are sewn together with practised skill.' -- TLS
'Her writing is always thrilling and this is much more than simply a page-turner.' -- The Times
"... a successful novel, well made and written with a light touch."
-- The Guardian
`The tremendous Tremain is on top form.' --Daily Mail
"truly wonderful, disturbing and thrilling story" --Sunday Express
'With wonderful skill, [Tremain] shows the ripples that circle these two unhappy people... brilliantly evoked'. --Tablet
"Tremain is a writer whose observations we trust... Equally compelling are her descriptions of the suffering of her characters... Trespass is full of such particular insights..." --The Sunday Times
'The unravelling web of lies and deceit is a gripping tale that holds the reader until the very last page.' --Living France
`Irresistibly, Tremain leads you into the dark heart of her artful work with prose that is scalpel sharp' --The Lady
`a dark, thrilling exploration of the nature of revenge and the legacy of damaged family history'
--Marie Claire
It is beautifully written, and elegantly edited, and manages to pack in vivid characterisations built on tragic family histories. -- Third Way, Reviews, Clare F Hobba
With its strong structure and interesting themes, it could be a textbook example of how to write a modern novel. -- Third Way, Reviews, Clare F Hobba
`[A] satisfying death-blow to place-in-the-sun escapism'
--Independent
`a compelling novel'
-- Tatler
The prose is precise and fluent, the tone is neutral, and Tremain makes effective use of the fact that many adults remain children.
--The Irish Times
offers a... gorgeous evocation of the external world and interior life but coupled with grand themes. --The Observer
'Culture clash, murder mystery, portrait of a place, meditation on the sands of time: Tremain's latest novel packs several genres into its disputed patch of French rural ground.' --The Independent
`Tremain expertly heightens the tension in a cleverly fashioned and astutely observed novel that reads like a cross between Ruth Rendell and Jean de Florette.' --Mail on Sunday
`Tremain's extraordinary imagination has produced a powerful, unsettling novel in which two worlds and cultures collide.' --Cath Kidston Magazine
`taut, full of suspense, the sense of "wild nature", that she captures so bewitchingly ... this is a dark book' --The Observer
`A writer of particular elegance and control, her story unfolds from its arresting first scene to its luminous final image as gracefully as a ballet'. --The Telegraph
Tremain can write herself across any literary boundary,an intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation'.
--The Sunday Telegraph
`... deft new novel... Tremain is such an assured and measured writer.' -- Spectator
`Tremain expertly maintains the suspense. As one would expect... much more is on offer than the pleasures of detection.' -- Literary Review
`... a novel in which humour, pathos and suspense are sewn together with practised skill.' -- TLS
'Her writing is always thrilling and this is much more than simply a page-turner.' -- The Times
"... a successful novel, well made and written with a light touch."
-- The Guardian
`The tremendous Tremain is on top form.' --Daily Mail
"truly wonderful, disturbing and thrilling story" --Sunday Express
'With wonderful skill, [Tremain] shows the ripples that circle these two unhappy people... brilliantly evoked'. --Tablet
"Tremain is a writer whose observations we trust... Equally compelling are her descriptions of the suffering of her characters... Trespass is full of such particular insights..." --The Sunday Times
'The unravelling web of lies and deceit is a gripping tale that holds the reader until the very last page.' --Living France
`Irresistibly, Tremain leads you into the dark heart of her artful work with prose that is scalpel sharp' --The Lady
`a dark, thrilling exploration of the nature of revenge and the legacy of damaged family history'
--Marie Claire
It is beautifully written, and elegantly edited, and manages to pack in vivid characterisations built on tragic family histories. -- Third Way, Reviews, Clare F Hobba
With its strong structure and interesting themes, it could be a textbook example of how to write a modern novel. -- Third Way, Reviews, Clare F Hobba
`[A] satisfying death-blow to place-in-the-sun escapism'
--Independent
`a compelling novel'
-- Tatler
The prose is precise and fluent, the tone is neutral, and Tremain makes effective use of the fact that many adults remain children.
--The Irish Times
offers a... gorgeous evocation of the external world and interior life but coupled with grand themes. --The Observer
'Culture clash, murder mystery, portrait of a place, meditation on the sands of time: Tremain's latest novel packs several genres into its disputed patch of French rural ground.' --The Independent
`Tremain expertly heightens the tension in a cleverly fashioned and astutely observed novel that reads like a cross between Ruth Rendell and Jean de Florette.' --Mail on Sunday
`Tremain's extraordinary imagination has produced a powerful, unsettling novel in which two worlds and cultures collide.' --Cath Kidston Magazine
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Set among the hills and gorges of the Cévennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge, by the bestselling author of The Road Home, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
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138 of 151 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A tale of siblings, territory and revenge set in the South of France, this is a dark tale and the reader is kept in suspense about the nature of the tragic events until late in the book. It's also about people's relationship to the land and outsiders trespassing on this and on each other's lives.
Set in the hills of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love and rivalry, disputed territory and ultimately revenge. In the French corner are Aramon Lunel, resident of the Mas Lunel, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage in the grounds. In the English corner are Veronica Verey, a garden designer, and her partner, an untalented watercolourist, Kitty. The catalyst that brings these together is the arrival in France of Anthony Verey, Veronica's brother whose exclusive antiques business in London is failing and who decides to follow his sister in finding a new life in France. Aramon is tempted to sell his family Mas by the lure of `foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has to be destroyed to secure the deal.
Multi-award winning Rose Tremain is a fascinating novelist because each of her books is very different. If anything ties them together it is the approach of from unexpected angles and a focus on unglamorous outsiders. Trespass is no exception - it's full of outsiders and they are always not easy to love. In fact, apart from the poor little school girl, Mélodie, who is left screaming at a gruesome discovery at the end of the first chapter (which we don't find out about for another 200 pages), it's difficult to feel much empathy of affection for any of the cast of characters.
Of course in real life, the obvious course for an antiques dealer in need of cash would be to turn up on day time TV selling tat in various auction rooms. Thankfully, Tremain takes Anthony Verey to the Cévennes hills. Tremain is not the first to set a book in the South of France, using the beauty of the land and the mysterious impact of the Mistral wind to bring disaster.
At times, some of her characters veer dangerously towards cliché. Why, for example, does Anthony need to have a penchant for young boys for example? It adds nothing to the story. His character is much more subtly portrayed by his amusing habit of appraising the history of every piece of furniture he encounters.
The story has a palpable sense of darkness about it. You know something bad is going to happen from the first chapter, but it's not clear what this is going to be or even to whom it will occur. Once it is clear what has happened, the culprit is not that much of a surprise but again, it's not clear if he or she will get away with it.
The book has important things to say about the clash of cultures and the whole importance of our relationship to the land. It's the English who are trespassing on French land, but also people who are trespassing on each other's lives.
I have to say that it's not my favourite of Tremain's books, but she's such an exciting writer that it's still a very good read. It's perhaps more unsettling and darker than her other books, and it keeps you guessing about the directions it's going to take. And I am still wondering about how poor Mélodie coped with her shocking discovery.
Set in the hills of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love and rivalry, disputed territory and ultimately revenge. In the French corner are Aramon Lunel, resident of the Mas Lunel, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage in the grounds. In the English corner are Veronica Verey, a garden designer, and her partner, an untalented watercolourist, Kitty. The catalyst that brings these together is the arrival in France of Anthony Verey, Veronica's brother whose exclusive antiques business in London is failing and who decides to follow his sister in finding a new life in France. Aramon is tempted to sell his family Mas by the lure of `foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has to be destroyed to secure the deal.
Multi-award winning Rose Tremain is a fascinating novelist because each of her books is very different. If anything ties them together it is the approach of from unexpected angles and a focus on unglamorous outsiders. Trespass is no exception - it's full of outsiders and they are always not easy to love. In fact, apart from the poor little school girl, Mélodie, who is left screaming at a gruesome discovery at the end of the first chapter (which we don't find out about for another 200 pages), it's difficult to feel much empathy of affection for any of the cast of characters.
Of course in real life, the obvious course for an antiques dealer in need of cash would be to turn up on day time TV selling tat in various auction rooms. Thankfully, Tremain takes Anthony Verey to the Cévennes hills. Tremain is not the first to set a book in the South of France, using the beauty of the land and the mysterious impact of the Mistral wind to bring disaster.
At times, some of her characters veer dangerously towards cliché. Why, for example, does Anthony need to have a penchant for young boys for example? It adds nothing to the story. His character is much more subtly portrayed by his amusing habit of appraising the history of every piece of furniture he encounters.
The story has a palpable sense of darkness about it. You know something bad is going to happen from the first chapter, but it's not clear what this is going to be or even to whom it will occur. Once it is clear what has happened, the culprit is not that much of a surprise but again, it's not clear if he or she will get away with it.
The book has important things to say about the clash of cultures and the whole importance of our relationship to the land. It's the English who are trespassing on French land, but also people who are trespassing on each other's lives.
I have to say that it's not my favourite of Tremain's books, but she's such an exciting writer that it's still a very good read. It's perhaps more unsettling and darker than her other books, and it keeps you guessing about the directions it's going to take. And I am still wondering about how poor Mélodie coped with her shocking discovery.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This book grabs you from the first page. This is a black tale of loathing and revenge between a brother and sister in south west France.Their lives are disrupted by an English antique dealer ,his sister and her hopeless artist partner.They all want to live in France buying local property with their middleclass money. Their English values and lifestyle intrude on the lives of local people driving a simple country woman to desperate measures which has devastating results for them all.Could not put it down.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'A life is a life,' says the protagonist towards the end of this book. You play the hand life deals you. Rose Tremain is one of the best English novelists writing today, and this is a wonderful book. She follows the lives of a French and an English family, neither of which is any great recommendation for family life, and brings them together with great accomplishment. I don't expect to read many better books than this one this year.
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