Trespass: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

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I can say that from the very first page, which couldn’t fail to pull any reader in, I knew that these characters were heading toward something terrible, though I wasn’t sure what. Even the children, including the bullied Melodie while being (to me) generally unlikable, show glimmers of beauty and potential to growth.

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Aramon is a decrepit alcoholic who hopes he can make €475,000 by selling his majestic, if subsiding, stone house, the Mas Lunel. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.The brother, like the house, is falling apart through personal neglect and the sister is biding her time until he completely falls apart.

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But one of the pleasures of the book are the number of subsidiary characters who are also fully developed and powerfully present in the story without distracting from the main story. After their adored mother's death, Aramon was encouraged by their father to join in abusing Audrun, the household's one remaining female member.We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. To Kitty's distress, Veronica offers to let Anthony stay with them indefinitely until he feels better. There are many references to parental love, and, as the characters are siblings, that kind of love also.

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If you can barely wait the 20 minutes it takes for the next James Patterson to appear that's okay with me. I don’t think it can hold a candle to the magnificent “Music and Silence,” which I read years ago and still think about often, but other than the above grammatical quibble, I really can’t point to any particular fault, though something holds it back from greatness. This is not a pretty postcard area of France, but one of rugged, mountains, full of valleys, rivers and forests with tortuous roads made famous by a journey Robert Louis Stevenson took on a donkey over 12 days and 220 kms.The story is of two sets of siblings, brothers and sisters, Aramon and Audrun, Anthony and Veronica. They become afraid to share their feelings and passion as they once did, suspicious that Anthony is on the other side of the door or the wall listening to them. The novel is set in a small town in Cévennes and concerns two pairs of mixed gender dysfunctional adult siblings, one French and one English who become entangled in a dispute over property.