The Story Of Lucy Gault
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, the woods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that...
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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, the woods - 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 portrayal of the impact of mere chance on a life.
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ISBN:
9780141010434 (0141010436)
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Modern
bookshelves: booker-shortlist, hardback, paper-read, published-2002, the-troubles, britain-ireland, summer-2015 Read from April 16 to July 26, 2015 Description: The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiv...
Loved his short story 'An idyll in winter'.
This book is depressing! It backs the optimist in me into a tight corner, shakes it's finger at me and states "sometimes broken things cannot be fixed".To that, I cross my arms on my chest, stand tall and refuse to believe it.
This book has a wonderful cover and blurb which instantly drew me to it, The opening chapters are quite chilling and gripping and you are really drawn in to the story, but by 70 pages the story seems to slow dowm in pace and for me the plot was not believable and I found by the end of the book there...
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