Pamela Norris
Dearly Beloveds
Trespass
By Rose Tremain
Chatto & Windus 254pp £17.99
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?
Anthony Verey is a London antiques dealer, once courted and wealthy, now fallen on harder times. At sixty-four, he suffers from what used to be known as accidie, or spiritual apathy, a sense that life has lost all savour. The escapades with handsome youths, the dashing entrances at
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