William Trevor
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It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. Those in the town can only watch as passion, love and fate take their course.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
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After 19 years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claimsl; and of course the memory...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
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47-year-old widow, Julia is about to remarry, much to the delight and relief of her daughters. But her mother has suspicions about Francis which she keeps to herself. Perhaps wrongly: if she'd shared her feelings with her daughter the disaster might have been avoided. Meanwhile there are two other women who have a claim on the would-be bridegroom - and the way things are shaping up it might be one of them, rather than Julia, who comes off worst out...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
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When an informer's body is found on the Quintons' estate shortly after the First World War, the Black and Tans torch their home, and only Willie and his mother escape. Willie grows into manhood and, although he finds love, he seems unable to forget the terrible injuries of the past.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
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What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade oif this crumbling hotel. The aging proprietor lies dying upstairs while her feckless son is lost in a world of drink and horseracing; and the loyal O'Shea, accompanied everywhere by his...
Author
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Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
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From the offices of her Love Department, Lady Dolores cures the heartaches of the lonely wives of Wimbledon with inimitable flourish and finesse. When her newest protege, the somewhat naive Edward Blakeston-Smith, is sent on a mission to learn the secrets of seductive, scheming Septimus Tuam and stop him in his tracks, he learns all about love, its friends and enemies.
13) The old boys
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Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
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A group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of the President of the Old Boys Association. Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby's son gets into trouble with the law, Nox has the perfect stick with which to beat him. Their powers may be failing but the old boys possess a fierce understanding of the things in life...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
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Carriglas is the island estate off County Cork where Sarah goes to live as governess to her wealthy cousins on the eve of WWI. Helplessly, she watches her cousins lead increasingly isolated and empty lives as if punishing themselves for a past crime. Yet somewhere in Carriglas there are secrets waiting to come out.
15) Last stories
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Viking
Pub. Date
2018
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In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor...