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It is beautifully written, and elegantly edited, and manages to pack in vivid characterisations built on tragic family histories.
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Tremain renders this untamed area with haunting prose, but the affecting sense of dread she builds makes her tale at times unrelentingly grim.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.
Trespass | Rose Tremain | 9780099554097 | AwesomeBooks Trespass | Rose Tremain | 9780099554097 | AwesomeBooks
There is nothing flashy or false about the way she slowly dissects the lives of others, picking at scabs and uncovering hurts; revealing truths many of us have spent a lifetime trying to articulate. It combines character study of damaged individuals with a mystery and was a story that I really wanted to read and know the outcome. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. 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.I wouldn't want to know any of them and I certainly wouldn't want to intrude on their painful world but they are disturbingly captivating. Trespass, in the sense of sin or wrong-doing, has poisoned the atmosphere in the Mas Lunel ever since.
Book Review - Trespass - By Rose Tremain - The New York Times
The scene-setting opening is languorous and beautiful, giving full rein to Tremain's descriptive gifts. 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. In the end, “Trespass” is an engrossing and unsettling story, and by Tremain’s standards, it’s a dark one. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.Here, Tremain takes on two pairs of 60 something siblings who couldn't be more different, Audrun and Aramon, French peasants living on the verge of dire poverty on their ancestral land in the south of France (and dealing with a past that includes the War, collaboration, hunger, and factory work), and Anthony and Veronica, respectively gay and lesbian, upper-crust English newcomers to France, an antiques dealer and a garden designer. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder.