Trespass, Rose Tremain
Trespass, Rose Tremain
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Trespass

Author: Rose Tremain

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2010

Synopsis

An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge. In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun, alone in her modern 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. When he sets his sights on the Mas, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.

About Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. Restoration, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1989 and made into a film in 1995. She lives in Norfolk and London with her husband, biographer Richard Holmes.

About Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson is a narrator who is recipient of the AudioFile Golden Voice Award. She has won the prestigious Audie Award and numerous Earphones Awards for her narrations. She is a British actress on stage and screen and notably a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has also appeared in popular films such as Bend It Like Beckham and Mona Lisa Smile. She was honored as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She received further recognition when she was nominated for several BAFTA Awards, and she earned an Olivier Award for her role in Death and the Maiden.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kinga on February 09, 2017

I bought Rose Tremain’s Trespass in a pound shop. Actually, it was bought for me by a person who had never been to Poundland before (or so he claimed). A pound for a new, shiny hardback is not a bad deal at all. I read this book aloud to the book-giver and I thought he enjoyed it, even if he fell as......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on March 02, 2017

Excellent atmospheric gothic with an undertone of real melancholy about blighted childhoods and the way they can haunt into adulthood. Tremain is an extraordinarily readable writer -- this is completely different than the other book of her's I've read (the Road Home), except that both featured chara......more

Goodreads review by Trish on October 22, 2010

Rose Tremain remains one of my favorite authors. 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. In Trepass, her latest novel, a British man in h......more

Quotes

“Ms. Tremain has implicated the reader in her potent little horror story, asking us all whether we truly own what we think is ours or whether we only trespass.” Wall Street Journal

“A well-executed, intense tale of dark family secrets coming to light in a sunny place.” Kirkus Reviews

“Tremain is as ambitious as her better known male compatriots. She seems ready to try any form, any style, even any worldview…Trespass will entice American readers to experience the riches and wisdom of Rose Tremain’s large and varied body of work. She is a maestro.” Washington Post

“[Tremain] turns to the mountains and villages of the Cévennes to bring us a different vision of cultural collision and the experience of the outsider… it is a successful novel, well made and written with a light touch.” Guardian (London)

Awards

  • Washington Post Best Book
  • AudioFile Earphones Award
  • Man Booker Prize
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