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Trespass: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Trespass: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Rose Tremain
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:384 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780099478454
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Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
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Vintage Publishing
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Imprint |
Vintage
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Publication Date |
6 January 2011 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Trespass is a thrilling novel about sibling love and devastating revenge '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...
Author Biography
Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk
ReviewsTaut ...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 *
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