Rose Tremain’s new novel begins in southern France with a young girl discovering something horrible in a secluded pool. Although no details are given, the perceptive reader will deduce that she has come across a body. The story then backtracks to introduce two sets of ageing siblings, Anthony and Veronica Verey and Aramon and Audrun Lunel, whose lives will unexpectedly collide in an isolated farmhouse in the Cévennes. As their histories unfold, it becomes evident that both Anthony and Aramon are deeply hated. Will one of them turn out to be the nasty item in the pool?

Literary Review

Mar 2010

Categories

Pamela Norris

Love Rectangle

Who Is Sylvia?

Double Life After Double Life

Seizing the Moment

She Longed for Security and Affection

Reading between the Lines

A Rodin of One’s Own

A Terrible Warning to Keep Clear of Cornwall

Women Can Do It, Too

On the Brink

Rooms with a View

Camera Obscura

The Snowman’s Tale

The Art of Diction

A Writer’s Refuge

Chaining The Soul

Mother Swapping

Sex and Cars

Writers’ War

Sister Act

A Short Story

‘A Baton In The Dark’

Off The Radar

‘Always Travel Heavy’