William Trevor

A novel set in Ireland in the 1920s charts the progress of a young girl whose entire life seems to be falling apart when the threat of arson and violence drives the family from their country home. Reprint.

The Story of Lucy Gault

Deepika Ramesh

A beautiful, melancholic, tragic tale. My blog: http://worncorners.com/2016/03/20/the...

Melody Izard

Things happen - it's best to get over them; Best to forgive. Time passes. That's it in a nutshell. Well there is also kind of a lesson about how you should make sure you go ahead and live your life even though you think a terrible sad thing has happened.

Janet Doré

I would place this book next to The Reader and Atonement on my bookshelf. It's the heart wrenching story of a single tragic event and the horrific impact it had on the lives of numerous people, both directly and indirectly impacted. The third person narration used by Trevor kept me a bit emotionally detached, but the events were so tragic that it kept me engaged and quickly turning the pages.

Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent 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 are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. Lucy, however, 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, to this wild stretch of coast . . . 'Flawless. Guaranteed to keep you reading - all through the night if necessary - to find out what happens. Trevor's best novel' New Statesman 'Dark, elegantly written ... a book to relish' Independent on Sunday

Gary Homewood

Really beautifully written novel of chance tradegy and emotional suppression. Perfectly paced and nuanced, interesting complex characters, vivid, realistic dialogue, compelling evocation of time and place, and lovely descriptions of landscape and history. Near perfect, completely absorbing and haunting

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Jane McCullough

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.

The Story of Lucy Gault

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