by William Trevor
It is during a funeral in the quiet little town of Rathmoye that Ellie first meets the stranger. A young man who has come there to take pictures of the burned out cinema.Ellie is an orphan, married to Dillahan, a farmer who is still struggling with the death of his first wife, seven years earlier.W...
First line: On a June evening some years after the middle of the last century Mrs Eileen Connulty passed through the town of Rathmoye: from Number 4 The Square to Magennis Street into Hurley Lane, along Irish Street, across Cloughjordan Road to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.A slice of life in...
To quote Eliza; "On reading Love and Summer once, I felt that it slid by me--washed over me--didn't stick. But still, it resonated."
Beautifully written, somewhat elegiac. Think of Brief Encounter set in 1950's Ireland, only with bicycles instead of the train.
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