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Miss Gomez and the Brethren

byWilliam Trevor

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Miss Gomez, a traumatized orphan from Jamaica, has given up her nightclub work and got religion. She has found a new life through her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way back in her homeland.
But when she moves into run-down Crow Street and starts broadcasting her revelations and prophecies about the residents of the street, all hell breaks loose. And sensationally, soon after she predicts a hideous sex crime, young Prudence, the pub landlord's teenage daughter, disappears.
A brilliant black comedy about the dreamers and survivors of city life.

About William Trevor

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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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241969342
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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