Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, 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.
Rose Tremain's most recent book, The Road Home, won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2008. Her novels have been published in 27 countries and have won many prizes, including the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a film (1995) and a stage play (2009). The Colour and Music & Silence, are currently in development as films, and the bestselling The Road Home is being adapted for television. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Taut ...full of suspense...bewitching
*Observer*
THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised,
imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of
landscape and character, emotion and memory
*The Times*
An intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation
*Sunday Telegraph*
A sumptuously shaded portrait of a private, lonely place and its
stranded people
*Independent*
Tremain is a writer of particular elegance and control, and her
story unfolds from its arresting first scene to its luminous final
image as gracefully as a ballet
*The Telegraph, Review Magazine*
Two pairs of siblings, all in late middle age, are set on a trajectory to collide with one another. The English Vereys meet the French Lunels in the Cevennes region of southern France. Anthony Verey is winding down his once successful career as a dealer in fine antiques now that the bottom has fallen out of the market. On a visit to his sister and her lesbian lover, he makes the fateful decision to buy a home nearby. This puts him in the direct path of Aramon and Audrun, a brother and sister who share an inherited property and whose relationship has been poisoned by years of sexual abuse perpetrated by the brother. He now wants to sell the old stone house left to him by their parents while his sister schemes to get it from him. Verdict No Tremain novel is like any other. This one is much darker but no less compelling than the celebrated The Road Home. Read her for her lushly descriptive settings, her deeply flawed but intensely interesting characters, and her imaginative plots. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/10.]--Barbara Love, Kingston Frontenac P.L., Ont. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
Taut ...full of suspense...bewitching -- Ruth Scurr * Observer
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THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised,
imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of
landscape and character, emotion and memory * The Times *
An intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation * Sunday
Telegraph *
A sumptuously shaded portrait of a private, lonely place and its
stranded people * Independent *
Tremain is a writer of particular elegance and control, and her
story unfolds from its arresting first scene to its luminous final
image as gracefully as a ballet * The Telegraph, Review Magazine *
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