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
The unravelling web of lies and deceit is a gripping tale that holds the reader until the very last page
- Eve Middleton, Living France
The tremendous Tremain is on top form
- Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
Truly wonderful, disturbing and thrilling story
Sunday Express
With wonderful skill, [Tremain] shows the ripples that circle these two unhappy people...brilliantly evoked
- Sarah Hayes, Tablet
Tremain is a writer whose observations we trust... Equally compelling are her descriptions of the suffering of her characters...<i>Trespass</i> is full of such particular insights
- Lindsay Duguid, The Sunday Times
'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...
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.