Trespass: A Novel

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W. W. Norton & Company, Oct 18, 2010 - Fiction - 274 pages

"Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable." —Margot Livesey, Boston Globe

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he drowns himself in drink. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun dreams of exacting retribution for a lifetime of betrayals. Into this world comes Anthony Verey, a disillusioned antiques dealer from London. When he sets his sights on the house, a frightening series of consequences is set in motion.

"Rose Tremain's writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. This powerful and unsettling work, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, reveals yet another dimension to Tremain's extraordinary imagination.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
7
Section 3
13
Section 4
22
Section 5
27
Section 6
33
Section 7
39
Section 8
46
Section 24
140
Section 25
144
Section 26
149
Section 27
155
Section 28
161
Section 29
167
Section 30
173
Section 31
179

Section 9
51
Section 10
57
Section 11
61
Section 12
67
Section 13
72
Section 14
77
Section 15
83
Section 16
89
Section 17
98
Section 18
104
Section 19
109
Section 20
116
Section 21
121
Section 22
127
Section 23
134
Section 32
184
Section 33
189
Section 34
193
Section 35
197
Section 36
201
Section 37
207
Section 38
215
Section 39
220
Section 40
227
Section 41
231
Section 42
238
Section 43
242
Section 44
247
Section 45
255
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About the author (2010)

Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.

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