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The
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The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Publishers
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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It is the summer of 1921 and eight-year-old Lucy Gault stays close to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the much loved house that her family is being forced to abandon. She knows that danger threatens and the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends in disaster. One chance event, unwanted and unexpected, will blight the lives of the Gaults for years to come and bind each of them in different ways to this one moment in time, to this beautiful stretch of coast… |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Trevor was born in 1928 at Mitchelstown, Co. Cork and spent his childhood
in provincial Ireland. He attended a number of Irish schools and later Trinity
College, Dublin. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and lives
in Devon, England. He has written many novels including The Children
of Dynmouth and Fools of Fortune, both winners of
the Whitbread Fiction Award; Reading Turgenev, short-listed
for the Booker Prize and most recently The Story of Lucy Gault ,
shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Whitbread Novel Award. He is also
a celebrated short-story writer and his recent collection The Hill
Bachelors won both the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Irish
Times Literature Prize. In 1977, William Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his valuable services to literature, and in 1999 he received the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of his valuable services to literature. |
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Reader
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loved this book - it was probably my book of the year. Marks out of ten: 10 Member of DCC Readers' Group, Dublin, Ireland ______________________________________________________________________ A wonderful story of human loss. William Trevor's economic style reminds me of those musical virtuosos who captivate the listener by the notes they don't play as much as those they do. I particulary enjoyed his evocation of rural Ireland in the middle period of the 20th century. A book worth a return visit. Paul Crowe, DCC Readers' Group, Dublin Ireland. |
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