The Trespasser's Companion

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liked Hayes’s reference to planting trees (p. 262), for example, though in my experience volunteers can be found to plant trees but are not so keen on doing other work like coppicing, hay making etc. I did notice--as I often do in a French book--that I stuttered on her mechanisms, the details of her plotting. I realized--even as I read it--that a particular device was used to allow the plot to go the direction it did. It felt a little obvious, maybe even a little cheap, but like the old, old lover/friend/enemy who knows where each button is and how to best employ it, it didn't matter. I still finished the story exhausted, relieved, drained. the only thing keeping me from rating this higher is the ending. its very much TFs MO for things to be wrapped up via a confession and im just kind of tired of it the sixth time around. for once, i want hard evidence. i want everything to be figured out before the suspect is brought in. its just all a little too convenient for my liking.

Out for beers one night and I raised the topic of access rights and how compliant English mountain bikers are with the “rules” re where it’s permitted to ride. It’s mental, but we are all so used to it no-one ever questions it. The moment you do, that’s the moment it collapses. We are not letting the conversation end and the conversation will be the thing that kills total dominion of land. I’ve just got started on this, but I loved his previous book and I think Hannah is being a tad unfair on this one.

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We need everyone to get involved if we want free, fair and informed access throughout England. Remember: trespass is not a criminal offence! what's so great about her is that she is proficient - nay, masterful - at every aspect of her craft so it looks good from every angle and there's literally something for everyone. there's an intriguing central puzzle for the mystery fans, her characters are original and deeply constructed for the literary fiction fans, she is excellent at controlling the pacing so it's neither too slow for a beach read nor too zippy if you want to become deeply immersed in a plot, it's spooky and suspenseful and smart and so, so funny. Towards the end of the book, after Hayes takes a swipe at rewilding, 45 it finally became clear to me why I was struggling to locate coherence. The Trespasser’s Companion reads like a sottish diatribe from the pub bore expounding on his obsession, liberally dosed with non sequiturs so any value in the book’s central ideas become lost. I find this almost sad, so I want to do justice to what I think is Hayes’s most innovative thought. Recommoning the land Together we can rebalance this disparity of access and have nature available for everyone to connect with.

A practice-led collaboration with dancer and movement professional Dr Sharon Smith forms a live iteration of the experience, an improvised movement piece for an invited audience. As in her previous novels, French weaves into The Trespasser more than just a murder mystery; this has elements and thoughtful explorations of Irish culture and western civilization, philosophy and psychology. By far the largest, most difficult boundary to cross is the one in your own head. After a thousand years of manipulated semiotics, the conception that we are committing a crime by walking in woodland or swimming in a river is so strong that it can be hard to overcome. Get over that, and you can get over pretty much any wall.’ ‘The Trespassers Companion’. I enjoyed many of the stories, some told by others than the author. I liked hearing of a botanist who was emboldened to wander from the path for the first time ever in an area local to him and found a rare flower of which he, and I gather everyone else, was completely unaware. Not only was this interesting (well, it interested me!) but this short tale was told perfectly – just perfectly – to make several points at once. as with all her novels, tana french shines in the way she understands and portrays the innerworkings of the justice system - the way crimes are investigated, the hierarchies within the various divisions, the relationships between detectives and their informants and the press, the slippery nature of undercover work, and her meticulous detailing of the process of everything from interviewing witnesses to paperwork, somehow making it fascinating and also surprising, even to people who have watched wayyyy too many crime dramas in their lifetimes.

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Neimanis, Astrida, Bodies of Water, Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, Environmental Cultures (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc/Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), British Library and Library of Congress <9781474275408_web.pdf> It means you have the right to destroy it. Exclude people from it,mine it, do what you like. The right toturn a thriving wildflower meadow into a dead monoculture of wheat. This is why our natural habitats have been so badly exploited.

Uncovering How Microbes in the Soil Influence Our Health and Our Food’, Washington Post< https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/uncovering-how-microbes-in-the-soil-influence-our-health-and-our-food/2019/09/27/81634f54-a4ba-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html> [accessed 12 October 2022] There was a point in the book where I felt impatient with the investigation. I started to think things were becoming a bit improbable. It soon straightened out, and then I was in awe of Tana French's writing skills. Her characters are so real! The conclusion of the case was so sensitively written that I felt I was a fly on the wall. That lifted this book to 5 stars for me.There are books I rely on to get me through tough spots in life. When things get to be too much, when nerves are strung so tight that they are about to snap, when exhausted cynicism threatens to take over and it feels that the world is ready to punch and bite, and the mind runs in tighter and tighter circles and it feels like you are your own worst enemy. You know, those thorny spots in life when you need something to shake you out of it and bring some color to the greyness of the day. I don’t necessarily know if wood engraving is suited to the topography and landscape of England but I certainly has helped to build our pastoral image. In some ways it feels like a good way to capture England simply because our notion of England has previously been captured by it. It is the visual version of Edward Thomas or Thomas Hardy. A lot of the 1930s nature books were illustrated and books by people like Gilbert White. But maybe it was just the 1930s wave of nature writing happily coincided with this new wave of woodcut artists — the ones I am keen on. And honestly, all the characterization is just perfect, in that trademark French way that puts other authors to shame. So well-drawn, complex, lifelike. Every persona, every scene, every sentence is crafted so precisely and perfectly that there nothing left but well-deserved admiration at what this emotional wringer does to your very soul, how it gets into your head and heart and refuses to leave. Hayes would never want us to “wilfully ignore a mountain of overwhelming peer-reviewed scientific evidence” 59 yet he, and every R2R campaigner I’ve ever had discussions with, either ignores such evidence, changes the subject and talks about something else, or suggests somehow of lesser importance. Of what do I speak? That a human presence in natural spaces displaces nonhuman inhabitants. Some of the research I adduce in support of this argument can be found in The R2R Stomps on Nature and The Sixth Driver of the Sixth Extinction. No need to repeat here. The purpose of propaganda

Grant, Harriet, ‘“We’re a Thorn in Their Side”: The Battle over Green Space in London’s Estates’, The Guardian, 4 November 2022, section Politics < https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/04/battle-over-green-space-london-estates-social-housing> [accessed 4 November 2022] The Trespasser is so well plotted, the characters are memorable, the atmosphere is creepy when it suits, there's a lingering melancholy after the book ends, and I literally laughed out loud several times. What more could I want?The plot is tightly woven and tense, with some of the best interrogation scenes I’ve encountered in crime fiction. I think the partnership between Conway and Moran is interesting and they seem to have a certain uneasy chemistry between them, that adds an element of tension and sizzle to the story.