The Story of Lucy Gault
  • Published: 22 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141044606
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.00

The Story of Lucy Gault

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Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She 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 forever. Trevor's novel, shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread Prizes, beautifully evokes rural Ireland and the tensions existing there, but also delicately portrays the terrible impact of mere chance on our lives.
  • Published: 22 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141044606
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, most recently with The Story of Lucy Gault in 2002. Trevor was widely recognized to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language. In 1999, William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to literature. He died in 2016.

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Praise for The Story of Lucy Gault

Gravely beautiful, subtle and haunting

Guardian

Astonishing, tender. A perfect novel

Sunday Telegraph

Stark yet tender, without a single false note. There will be only a handful of novels worth reading this year (or any year) . . . this book is certainly one

Literary Review

Flawless . . . not a single word seems out of place. Guaranteed to keep you reading - all trhough the night if necessary - to find out what happens. Trevor's best novel

New Statesman

Striking, throughtful. Written with grace and finesse and charged throughout with a persuasive disquiet

Independent

Dark, elegantly written . . . a book to relish

Independent on Sunday

Unusual, beguiling, beautiful

The Times

A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the gift of redemptive love

Fegal Keane, Independent