William Trevor

Love and Summer

  • Love and Summer

  • 'A master of both language and storytelling' HILARY MANTEL

    'Compact and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .'

    Rathmoye, Ireland, in the middle of the last century, and into town comes a stranger on the day of Eileen Connulty's funeral. Taking unwanted and unasked for photographs, Florian Kilderry upsets its carefully settled status quo. But Ellie, a young convent girl married to a farmer still mourning his first wife, cannot help but be drawn to this trespassing youth. Over the course of a long, warm summer Ellie and Florian form an attachment that sleepy Rathmoye cannot ignore . . .

    'Unbearably moving' Spectator

Last Stories
Last Stories
William Trevor
The Silence in the Garden
The Silence in the Garden
William Trevor
Nights at the Alexandra
Nights at the Alexandra
William Trevor
Fools of Fortune
Fools of Fortune
William Trevor
Other People's Worlds
Other People's Worlds
William Trevor
Elizabeth Alone
Elizabeth Alone
William Trevor
Miss Gomez and the Brethren
Miss Gomez and the Brethren
William Trevor
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
William Trevor
The Love Department
The Love Department
William Trevor
The Boarding House
The Boarding House
William Trevor
The Old Boys
The Old Boys
William Trevor
The Children Of Dynmouth
The Children Of Dynmouth
William Trevor
Death In Summer
Death In Summer
William Trevor
The Mark-2 Wife
The Mark-2 Wife
William Trevor
Two Lives
Two Lives
William Trevor
Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey
William Trevor
The Collected Stories Giftset
The Collected Stories Giftset
William Trevor
Cheating at Canasta
Cheating at Canasta
William Trevor
A Bit on the Side
A Bit on the Side
William Trevor
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories
William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault
The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor
The Hill Bachelors
The Hill Bachelors
William Trevor
After Rain
After Rain
William Trevor
Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics

1176 Books

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.

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