and manage to make a complete hash of their own, their friends', and even perfect strangers' lives while imagining themselves to be acting in accord with the highest and best principles of mankind.

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The story she weaves between her pair of siblings is taut and full of suspense that no reviewer should dispel.As to the title, not too far in, I came across this: Doesn’t every love need to create for itself its own protected space? Women in Trespass are strong, but are treated as weak for the sake of pride which is something that rang very true from my family. Explore Percival Everett’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel The Trees with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘asks questions about history and justice and allows not a single easy answer. From London comes Anthony Verey, a famous antiques dealer in his 60s, suddenly failing to make money from his well-tutored eye for "dead people's" furniture and artefacts.

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There is no striving for effect; such imagery as is deployed is perfectly judged, the story- telling is stripped down to its purest form, and the command of the material is total. This is not a pretty postcard area of France, but one of rugged, mountains, full of valleys, rivers and forests with tortuous roads made famous by a journey Robert Louis Stevenson took on a donkey over 12 days and 220 kms.

Among her best are: seventeenth century England in Restoration and the Danish court in Music and Silence, the New Zealand gold rush of the mid 19th century in The Color and contemporary immigrant life on England in The Road Home. A criss-crossing, sinuous tale of muted passion and sibling rivarly - and affection - set in the Cevennes. There are many references to parental love, and, as the characters are siblings, that kind of love also. I really felt for Audrun as a woman struggling with an unimaginable burden but was slightly repelled by her twisted focus. Instead, Trespass evinces a steely grip on corrupt human nature, in all its ugliness and inadequacy.

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It's shouting down the well to say this, but do you not see, Womankind, that this is INSULTING TO *YOU*? The first quarter of the book establishes these damaged (and rather unlikeable) characters and their personalities.

She evokes the coolness of the old dark house, its thick stone walls and high ceilings, reminiscent of a church roof. Tremain renders this untamed area with haunting prose, but the affecting sense of dread she builds makes her tale at times unrelentingly grim. 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. She has written several mind-blowing standalone novels in her career based on the magical realism, historical fiction, mystery, crime, suspense, cultural, and literary fiction genres. The way Tremain is able to straddle various genres and themes—psychological fiction, mystery, crime, family drama, inheritance laws, art—and never pigeonhole herself also shows her immense skill, especially with the weight of all she juggles here and yet is able to render very quiet, very still, and almost claustrophobic, like a chamber play or a Bergman film.

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Recommended: for all those who enjoy the exploration of the darker side of all of us, and of family and relationships with the tool of prose that is graceful and precise. Both brother and sister struggle to come to terms with their poisoned past, though they struggle in different ways. 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. Then, engineering them into an impossibly volatile situation – kickstarted by Anthony's immediate attraction to the crumbling Mas Lunel, and Audrun's determination that it should not be sold – she leaves them to reap the consequences of their wonky desires and their impetuous actions.Unusually, I managed to enjoy the book despite not identifying with any of the characters or even liking any of them! It shows how childhood friendship is formed, lost, transformed, and gained back over the course of a lifetime. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. Sadly, I had to finish it by myself as the aforementioned book-giver no longer speaks to me (quite rightly so).