Though they both adored their mother, Bernadette, their father was abusive, and he encouraged Aramon to follow his example.

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Unfortunately, I just couldn't find any redeeming qualities in the characters and therefore, couldn't have cared less what happened to them.While Anthony and Veronica clip unruly olive trees into a semblance of good behaviour and share glasses of chilled white wine on the terrace, Aramon and Audrun Lunel glower at one another menacingly, he from the decaying family house left solely to him by their father, she from the hastily thrown-together bungalow he has allowed her to build on a scrap of land. Tremain renders this untamed area with haunting prose, but the affecting sense of dread she builds makes her tale at times unrelentingly grim. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. The book not only became successful, but also established the reputation of Tremain as a chronicler of loneliness and despair. To Kitty's distress, Veronica offers to let Anthony stay with them indefinitely until he feels better.

Book Review - Trespass - By Rose Tremain - The New York Times

Insofar as Trespass sets itself to explore the nature of outsiderness and its relationship to our more nebulous yearnings, it is a successful novel, well made and written with a light touch. In her first novel since the Orange prize-winning The Road Home, which told the story of an eastern European's journey through a bewildering and inhospitable contemporary Britain, she turns to the mountains and villages of the Cévennes to bring us a different vision of cultural collision and the experience of the outsider. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.Audrun Lunel is a slow child, youngest of her family, and probably not the daughter of the man who raised and molested her, as she was born very shortly after the end of WWII and her mother was alone. Tremain's extraordinary imagination has produced a powerful, unsettling novel in which two worlds and cultures collide. Audrun, however, living in her shabby bungalow, can’t bear to leave the land she loves despite the fact that the Mas Lunel holds many bitter memories for her. There is the basic trespassing on land, people trespassing on other lives and ignoring boundaries, the cultural implications of trespassing on the land of another culture, and the trespassing on honor and truth.

Trespass - Rose Tremain

The success of this book helped author Tremain become much more popular and successful as an author of historical and literary fiction. Set in the Cevennes region of France, Trespass is about grotesque family relationships, collusion, shame, deception, land disputes, revenge with a capital R and a nasty discovery on the river bank. 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. 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. It says in the blurb "From the moment he (Anthony Verey) arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.The main characters depicted in this book include Joseph Blackstone, Harriet Blackstone, Lilian Blackstone, Toby Orchard, Dorothy Orchard, Edwin Orchard, etc.

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Audrun is an elderly woman who lives in a small shack she has inherited in a small town in Cévennes where she has always lived. An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge from the celebrated author of The Road Home and Restoration. Creepy queerboy is dead, not before killing his sister's relationship to a perfectly nice if deadly dull woman, and nasty abuser boy goes to prison.Because if you left your own country, if you left it late, and made your home in someone else's country, there was always a feeling that you were breaking an invisible law, always the irrational fear that, one day, some 'rightful owner' would arri When he travelled with a donkey in the Cévennes mountains of south-central France in the 1870s, Robert Louis Stevenson took a revolver with him, in case the locals were unfriendly. It is set in southern France, an area that Tremain knows well, and her expertise comes across in the writing. They live almost in utter isolation at the Mas Lunel and their proximity torments each of them daily.