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Trespass

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

Rose Tremain author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Jan '11

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Set among the hills and gorges 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.

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. His sister, Audrun, alone in her bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life.

'THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised, imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of landscape and character, emotion and memory' The Times

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in her bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life.

Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London seeking to remake his life in France. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion...

Taut ...full of suspense...bewitching -- Ruth Scurr * 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 *

  • Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010

ISBN: 9780099478454

Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 22mm

Weight: 266g

384 pages