Trespass: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

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Into this closed Cevenol world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London.

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This novel features the central characters in the roles of Gustav Perle, Emilie, Anton Zweibel, etc. And it is not the characters and the events which are scary but the fabulous landscape and scenery which stays with the reader! It has the gripping nature (and several elements) of a mystery or thriller, but it has a surprisingly touching ending that takes it quite out of genre fiction.Tremain traces the role Kitty's jealous anticipation of damage plays in endangering all she most cares about. But from the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.

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Its owner is an alcoholic - so haunted by his violent past that he’s become incapable of all meaningful action. She deftly sketches the region's economic history: the decline of the silk industry, the toxic conditions of an underwear factory producing rayon girdles. Trespass" was my first Tremain's book, and I chose to read it almost accidentally, as I could not remember the context in which it ended up in my e-reader. She has said that part of the allure of historic fiction is that it is a helpful genre: ‘You can make an accommodation with your own past.

I really felt for Audrun as a woman struggling with an unimaginable burden but was slightly repelled by her twisted focus. The success of this book helped author Tremain become much more popular and successful as an author of historical and literary fiction. The scene-setting opening is languorous and beautiful, giving full rein to Tremain's descriptive gifts. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. And all the time the Cevennes hills remain, as cruel and seductive as ever, unforgettably captured in this powerful and unsettling novel, which reveals yet another dimension to Rose Tremain's extraordinary imagination.

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Though the mysteries that unravelled weren't all that mysterious to me at all (I must have a sick mind because I always think the worst of characters in books and what sinister acts they may have committed in the past. Suffice to say that the first chapter, which begins picturesquely, with a small child inspecting insects in the dusty grass at Mas Lunel, ends with a piercing scream that echoes through the rest of the novel until its gory denouement.When he travelled with a donkey in the Cévennes mountains of south-central France in the 1870s, Robert Louis Stevenson took a revolver with him, in case the locals were unfriendly. Anthony Verey feels wearyingly sorry for himself for most of the book and not only did I not like his character, I found his perpetual whinging spoilt the rest of this story for me as well. Audrun, who steadfastly refuses to rebuild deeper in the forest, out of sight of the Mas Lunel, alienates Anthony, Aramon, and all the local estate agents, who feel they cannot sell the Mas Lunel until the dispute between brother and sister is settled.

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The first chapter was really very good and I was looking forward to the "frightening and unstoppable series of consequences" mentioned on the back of my paperback copy. The 1989 book, Restoration, provides a historical narrative of many layers based on the interconnected lives of several characters during the time of Charles II. Plot followed a tried and tested formula, starting with all of our characters doing something to trigger the events that will eventually culminate in a very correct climax, all wrapped up and tied with a bow. Frankly, if the book had been any longer, I would have lost the will to live and wouldn't have finished it. Prison can be, in some ways at least, a place of growth and loss can both cripple and release, sometimes both at the same time.

While I could feel sympathy for some of the characters in “Trespass,” I really didn’t like any of them, other than Mélodie, a little girl we meet in the first chapter and then don’t see again for about two hundred pages or so.