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Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. 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These twelve beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's unrivalled compassion for the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His tight, perfected short stories - each an astonishing performance in which melodramatic situations are turned, by acute psychological insight, into classic drama - make him the greatest living writer in English' \u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove and Summer\u003c\/i\u003e will adore \u003ci\u003eThe Hill Bachelors\u003c\/i\u003e. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. 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Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation.  Trevor is, in his own words, \"a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. 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Almost perfect works of art by perhaps the greatest short story writer now working in English' \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age. In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents' unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volume's title story, a middle-aged accountant offers his reasons for ending a love affair. At the heart of this stunning collection is Trevor's characteristic tenderness and unflinching eye for both the humanizing and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and rural life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove and Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, you will love this book. 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And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it each day - her children taken, her house, her flowerbeds, belongings, clothes - their games in the communal drawing room were a reality her affliction allowed.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA husband sits in Harry's Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife - lost to him now - whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. On another table, a young couple quarrel. 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The author of numerous acclaimed collections of short stories and novels, he has won many awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize: in 1976 with his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Children of Dynmouth\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1991 with \u003ci\u003eReading Turgenev\u003c\/i\u003e and in 2002 with \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the cause of independence and secretly fund Michael Collins' fighters. But one of their workers is an informer to the British, and when he's murdered on their land, though they know nothing of it, the Black and Tans come seeking revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTill now young Willy Quinton has led a pleasant, cosseted life. But the murder of his father and sisters by British soldiers brings him to a point when he can only contemplate revenge himself. He sets off for Liverpool with hatred in his heart. Will he survive? Will the cycle ever be broken?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To my mind William Trevor's best novel and a very fine one' Graham Greene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1928. He spent his childhood in Ireland and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, but has lived in England for many years. 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They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311562928501,"sku":"9780140232455","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140232455_8acce961-20a7-4b53-b9ce-442105d76357.jpg?v=1786032619"},{"product_id":"9780141042190","title":"Love and Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Summer\u003c\/i\u003e - a remarkable, heart-rending novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lingers in the memory as a beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape'  \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unbearably moving'  \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A portrait of a brackish rural backwater, complete with family tragedy, sexual scandal, a repressed spinster and a half-crazed ancient retainer . . . delicate, elegiac, written with all Trevor's trademark compassion and understanding'  \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A series of wrenching human dramas, which Trevor depicts with kindness and beautiful delicacy'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant. Trevor is the ultimate Old Master'  \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautiful. A flawless work of art'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFelicia's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e will adore \u003ci\u003eLove and Summer\u003c\/i\u003e. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: \u003ci\u003eAfter Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Two Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311568204149,"sku":"9780141042190","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141042190_b14b796d-f5b8-4968-8e2b-a5edc602a43c.jpg?v=1786010987"},{"product_id":"elizabeth-alone","title":"Elizabeth Alone","description":"\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Alone\u003c\/i\u003e by William Trevor - a powerful and moving novel from one of the world's finest writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of \u003ci\u003eLove and Summer \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFelicia's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e will be delighted by \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Alone\u003c\/i\u003e. It will also be enjoyed by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A finely observed, gently sensitive comedy, delightful to read' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lived in England for many years. The author of numerous acclaimed collections of short stories and novels, he has won many awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize: in 1976 with his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Children of Dynmouth\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1991 with \u003ci\u003eReading Turgenev\u003c\/i\u003e and in 2002 with \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault\u003c\/i\u003e. 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But when she comes back almost thirty years later, after the First World War and the Irish Civil War have taken their toll, she discovers that there were things going on during that apparently idyllic summer which now horrify her and which cast a long shadow over the remnants of the family still living there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'William Trevor's precisions and indirections slowly and balefully accumulate in this, his most ambitious novel' Anthony Thwaite, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Offers marvels with Mr Trevor's customary understated dexterity' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1928. He spent his childhood in Ireland and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, but has lived in England for many years. 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