Trespass
by Rose Tremain
2010 / 263 pages
Read by – Juliet Stephenson 9h 15m
Rating: 8.25 / literary suspense
I’d read two of Tremain’s books prior to this one and enjoyed them so I nominated this for the Bookgroup List November selection and it got chosen. Afterwards I didn’t know if I was happy about that decision or not but I had to go ahead – I’m really glad I did.
I started listening only but got a bit confused so I downloaded the Kindle book and started over. 🙂
The book opens with a kind of prologue in which Mélodie, a young girl who is unhappy about her family’s relocation to an old house in rural France, is getting ready to dive into a mountain pool when she …
“…sees something which shouldn’t be there. At first look, she doesn’t recognise what it is. She has to look agian. She has to stare. Then she starts screaming.”