Trespass

Trespass is one of those infinitely clever novels that pleases, perplexes and plays with the reader

Savidge Reads

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...Trespass is full of such particular insights

Lindsay Duguid, The Sunday Times

Irresistibly, Tremain leads you into the dark heart of her artful work with prose that is scalpel sharp

Stephanie Cross, The Lady

A dark, thrilling exploration of the nature of revenge and the legacy of damaged family history

Marie Claire

Deft new novel... Tremain is such an assured and measured writer

Sebastian Sme, Spectator

Tremain expertly maintains the suspense. As one would expect from so gifted a storyteller...much more is on offer than the pleasures of detection

Pamela Norris, Literary Review

A novel in which humour, pathos and suspense are sewn together with practised skill

Edmund Gordon, Times Literary Supplement

Sinister, shocking and extremely powerful

Woman & Home

Wonderful

Red

Her writing is always thrilling and this is much more than simply a page-turner

Jane Wheatley, The Times

A successful novel, well made and written with a light touch

Alex Clark, The Guardian

It is beautifully written, and elegantly edited, and manages to pack in vivid characterisations built on tragic family histories... With its strong structure and interesting themes, it could be a textbook example of how to write a modern novel

Third Way

Satisfying death-blow to place-in-the-sun escapism

Boyd Tonkin, Independent Summer Reads

A compelling novel

Tatler

A wry family black comedy, a study in revenge, and an unlikely, if sinister, thriller...a characteristically intelligent, well constructed narrative... The prose is precise and fluent, the tone is neutral, and Tremain makes effective use of the fact that many adults remain children

Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

A criss-crossing, sinuous tale of muted passion and sibling rivarly - and affection - set in the Cevennes. Its peculiar, particular atmosphere is conjured perfectly

Erica Wagner, The Times, Christmas round up

A haunting and perfectly poised tale of incest and antiques.

Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up

Creepily affecting

Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday, Christmas round up

Chilling and vivid

Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express

Surely one of the most versatile novelists writing today... The scene-setting opening is languorous and beautiful, giving full rein to Tremain's descriptive gifts... A disturbing tale and one rich in detail

Daily Express

Intriguing

James Urquhart, Financial Times

Tremain expertly heightens the tension in a cleverly fashioned and astutely observed novel that reads like a cross between Ruth Rendell and Jean de Florette

Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday

Tremain's extraordinary imagination has produced a powerful, unsettling novel in which two worlds and cultures collide

Cath Kidson Magazine

Tremain writes about this part of France so well because she has known it since childhood, and she captures a sensuality in the landscape that is both attractive and eerie... It is an enthralling book about the catastrophic disruption honesty can bring

Siobhan Kane, Irish Times

The novel has all the formal structure of a medieval morality tale, along with its traditional dichotomies: rus and urbe, avarice and asceticism, chastity and lust

Guardian

Rose Tremain's thrilling Trespass is set in an obsure valley in Southern France... To be read slowly; Tremain's writing is too exquisite to hurry

The Times

Timeless but rooted; tangible but otherworldly. Meticulously plotted, with the musty sadness that comes of cleaving to the past, Trespass will reward your reading time

Scotland on Sunday

Rose Tremain's novel begins with a scream and barely loosens its grip amid the sumptuously written pages that follow...subtly harnesses the stifling heat and dangerously feral landscape of southern France to unspool a psychologically disconcerting story of family skeletons and outsider tensions

Metro

Like a sinister edition of A Place In the Sun directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with the depth and subtlety that make the book far more than a mere thriller

You Magazine (Daily Mail)

Timeless but rooted; tangible but otherworldly. Meticulously plotted, with the musty sadness that comes of cleaving to the past, Trespass will reward your reading time

Scotland on Sunday

Surely one of the most versatile novelists writing today... The scene-setting opening is languorous and beautiful, giving full rein to Tremain's descriptive gifts... A disturbing tale and one rich in detail

Daily Express

Taut ...full of suspense...above all it is the sense of "wild nature", woods of holm oak, beech, chestnut and pine, with the river running through them and the threat of heavy rain haging above, that she captures so bewitchingly... This is a dark book

Ruth Scurr, Observer

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

Rose Tremain can write herself across any literary boundary'; 'an intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation

The Sunday Telegraph, Seven 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...Trespass is full of such particular insights...

Lindsay Duguid, The Sunday Times

Irresistibly, Tremain leads you into the dark heart of her artful work with prose that is scalpel sharp

Stephanie Cross, The Lady

A dark, thrilling exploration of the nature of revenge and the legacy of damaged family history

Marie Claire

Deft new novel... Tremain is such an assured and measured writer

Sebastian Sme, Spectator

Tremain expertly maintains the suspense. As one would expect from so gifted a storyteller... much more is on offer than the pleasures of detection

Pamela Norris, Literary Review

A novel in which humour, pathos and suspense are sewn together with practised skill

Edmund Gordon, Times Literary Supplement

Sinister, shocking and extremely powerful

Woman & Home

Wonderful

Red

Her writing is always thrilling and this is much more than simply a page-turner

Jane Wheatley, The Times

A successful novel, well made and written with a light touch

Alex Clark, The Guardian

It is beautifully written, and elegantly edited, and manages to pack in vivid characterisations built on tragic family histories...With its strong structure and interesting themes, it could be a textbook example of how to write a modern novel

Third Way

Satisfying death-blow to place-in-the-sun escapism

Boyd Tonkin, Independent Summer Reads

A compelling novel

Tatler

A wry family black comedy, a study in revenge, and an unlikely, if sinister, thriller...a characteristically intelligent, well constructed narrative...The prose is precise and fluent, the tone is neutral, and Tremain makes effective use of the fact that many adults remain children

Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

A criss-crossing, sinuous tale of muted passion and sibling rivarly- and affection- set in the Cevennes. Its peculiar, particular atmosphere is conjured perfectly.

Erica Wagner, The Times, Christmas round up

A haunting and perfectly poised tale of incest and antiques.

Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up

Creepily affecting

Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday, Christmas round up

Chilling and vivid

Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express

Culture clash, murder mystery, portrait of a place, meditation on the sands of time: Tremain's latest novel packs several genres into its disputed patch of French rural ground.

Independent

Intriguing

James Urquhart, Financial Times

Tremain expertly heightens the tension in a cleverly fashioned and astutely observed novel that reads like a cross between Ruth Rendell and Jean de Florette.

Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday

Tremain's extraordinary imagination has produced a powerful, unsettling novel in which two worlds and cultures collide.

Cath Kidson Magazine

Tremain writes about this part of France so well because she has known it since childhood, and she captures a sensuality in the landscape that is both attractive and eerie... It is an enthralling book about the catastrophic disruption honesty can bring.

Siobhan Kane, Irish Times

The novel has all the formal structure of a medieval morality tale, along with its traditional dichotomies: rus and urbe, avarice and asceticism, chastity and lust

Guardian

Rose Tremain's thrilling Trespass is set in an obsure valley in Southern France... To be read slowly; Tremain's writing is too exquisite to hurry

The Times