The Trespasser's Companion

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The pattern seems to be continuing one morning when she and her partner, Stephen Moran, are assigned a new case that appears to be open and shut. An attractive young woman named Aislinn Murray is found dead in her home, apparently the victim of a lovers' quarrel that has spun out of control. The two detectives bring in Aislinn's new boyfriend, Rory Fallon, and question him under the watchful eye of a senior detective who's inserted himself into the case. Fallon is obviously nervous, and there are problems with the story he tells. To the senior detective, the case seems a slam dunk and he presses Conway and Moran to charge Fallon and move on to new business. Action for Access - CanoeDaysOut UK Map’ < https://accessmap.riveraccessforall.co.uk/map/rivers> [accessed 15 September 2022] Antoinette Conway and her partner Steve Moran are tossed a case involving a young woman named Aislinn, whose body was found after a punch to the face caused her to fall and hit her head, killing her. Guy Shrubsole’s Who Owns England? is the companion piece to The Book of Trespass. A Right to Roam by Marion Shoard,Peter Linebaugh’s Stop, Thief, Guy Standing’s Plunder of the Commons. There is lots of radical literature that tells an alternative folk story of how the common people were robbed of the land. Except that the case turns out to be more complicated than first thought. It’s more than your “bog-standard domestic”, a much-too-common “boy beats girl” story. Something smells rotten about the case, and the rot may just extend all the way to her own (much-hated) squad.

When she was a child, Antoinette Conway’s mother told her that her father was an Egyptian Prince, a medical student from Saudi Arabia, a Brazilian guitarist. Her mother never told her the truth, and Antoinette grew up and stopped believing in stories. However, what she doesn’t realize is that she turned the idea of being a Detective on the Murder Squad into a fantasy. I don’t necessarily know if wood engraving is suited to the topography and landscape of England but I certainly has helped to build our pastoral image. In some ways it feels like a good way to capture England simply because our notion of England has previously been captured by it. It is the visual version of Edward Thomas or Thomas Hardy. A lot of the 1930s nature books were illustrated and books by people like Gilbert White. But maybe it was just the 1930s wave of nature writing happily coincided with this new wave of woodcut artists — the ones I am keen on.Countryside-for-All-Guide.Pdf’ < https://www.pathsforall.org.uk/mediaLibrary/other/english/countryside-for-all-guide.pdf> [accessed 7 November 2022]

I did English at university and then I did art foundation. But I realised what you need is time. And doing an art degree is a very expense way of buying yourself time. Moral time as well — so it feels ok to be spending time doing this. So my real art degree was not at college. After my first graphic novel came out I gave myself three years to move from just doing communication in the charity sector to establishing myself in some way as an artist. I gave myself the length of time for a uni course. And after those three years I was still incredibly poor but I had sort of developed a style. I knew I was heading somewhere with it. There were times halfway through when I was scared. Terrified. Projecting. Imagining what was going to happen next. Picturing the ABSOLUTE WORST. Stomach in knots. At that point, I even messaged a Goodreads friend who just finished this and told her where I was at and that I had a bad feeling. All I can say is.. Thank god! My imagination ran wild and I was WAY off course. Tana French does that. She leads you down a path and you think, OMG!!! And you are wrong! I was led astray more times than I can count. And, in this instance, PHEW!!! A practice-led collaboration with dancer and movement professional Dr Sharon Smith forms a live iteration of the experience, an improvised movement piece for an invited audience. Water Droplets “Hold Secret Ingredient behind Origins of Life”, Scientists Say’, The Independent, 2022 < https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/water-droplets-life-earth-amino-acid-formation-b2191755.html> [accessed 13 October 2022] N. (2022), The Trespasser’s Companion: a field guide to reclaiming what is already ours, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, p. 249.

I’ve just got started on this, but I loved his previous book and I think Hannah is being a tad unfair on this one. I enjoyed many of the stories, some told by others than the author. I liked hearing of a botanist who was emboldened to wander from the path for the first time ever in an area local to him and found a rare flower of which he, and I gather everyone else, was completely unaware. Not only was this interesting (well, it interested me!) but this short tale was told perfectly – just perfectly – to make several points at once. Antoinette Conway lives inside our heads starting with the prologue when she tells us about the stories her ma made up about her da. She never did get the truth about her absent father -- only "squirted Fairy liquid". Her birth certificate says Unknown. ..... The second evening I read, I had more time, a little less anxiety; I knew I'd be finishing far before bed. And I might of peeked at the ending, because French is one of the authors I can't quite trust; she plays by different authorial rules. I haven't forgotten her first book, In the Woods.

It’s the sixth entry in the Dublin Murder Squad series, but since those books are only loosely linked by a few shared characters, it can be read as a standalone, with no prior familiarity with the series. It stands completely on its own merit and is a perfect introduction to Tana French’s excellent writing.To undo the horrors of centuries of enclosure, we must recommon the land, which is to say, make the land work for community benefit including, but not limited to access. 46 Let us delve a little further into the case being made. Once upon a time in a golden age life for the vast majority of us was oriented around the common, wherein local people – commoners – cared for the land “in such a way that their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s grandchildren could benefit from it too.” 47 Unfortunately Harold lost at Hastings in 1066, ushering in the concept of enclosure, first for deer parks and in subsequent centuries driving people to the cities in search of work “when common land turned to private land” 48, 49 resulting really in pretty much of everything we all probably lament in our changing countryside; “neoliberal enclosure… [n]ew housing estates on greenbelt land, new industrial estates… obliterating [nature] altogether.” 50 The Trespasser is one of those books for me. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve listened to the wonderful audio version that makes my inner voice speak with Irish accent for days and days. It’s certainly my favorite Tana French book, probably the only one of hers that does not shred your heart mercilessly until there’s nothing left. It’s a book of gruffly sarcasm and angry resentment that culminates with such cautious bittersweet hope that even the most tightly wound can finally unclench. liked Hayes’s reference to planting trees (p. 262), for example, though in my experience volunteers can be found to plant trees but are not so keen on doing other work like coppicing, hay making etc. It’s mental, but we are all so used to it no-one ever questions it. The moment you do, that’s the moment it collapses. We are not letting the conversation end and the conversation will be the thing that kills total dominion of land. the tension is built perfectly - since we are seeing everything through conway's perspective, we're always right there with her - second-guessing what's really going on; what's a trap, what's a too-easy solution, when the other shoe is going to drop. it is a very intense and claustrophobic experience.