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The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor
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Description for The Story of Lucy Gault
hardcover. Novel. 228pp
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, thewoods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that the calamity happens - an accident almost, but so vicious in its consequences that it blights the lives of the Gaults for years to come. Trevor's new novel beautifully evokes rural Ireland and the tensions existing there, but also is Hardy-like in its ... Read more
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, thewoods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that the calamity happens - an accident almost, but so vicious in its consequences that it blights the lives of the Gaults for years to come. Trevor's new novel beautifully evokes rural Ireland and the tensions existing there, but also is Hardy-like in its ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Viking London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
1st Edition
Yes
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780670913428
SKU
KTK0000565
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About William Trevor
William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928. He is widely regarded as our greatest living short-story writer, and his novels have won many awards. He has won the Whitbread Fiction Prize three times (most recently for FELICIA'S JOURNEY), and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for READING TURGENEV. In 1999 he was awarded the David Cohen British Literature ... Read more
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