Trespass by Rose Tremain

The plot of this book was the blackest most depressing story. It was about a particularly unlikeable older English antique dealer who had issues with both his mother and his sexuality, his sister who is living in a lesbian relationship in France and her partner, a French brother and sister who have a desperately ugly relationship and a very unhappy child who has been transplanted from Paris to the country. The English brother moves to France and decides to buy a property there from the French brother, who has to get rid of his sister from her portion of the land for the sale to go through. It goes on from there. There are no resolutions really to anybody’s issues, and nobody ends up happy or fulfilled, just more miserable than before. It’s a most depressing read and not what I expected from Rose Tremain.