Trevor's best novel' New Statesman 'Dark, elegantly written. Guaranteed to keep you reading - all through the night if necessary - to find out what happens. 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. But the path she chooses ends in disaster. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A perfect novel' Sunday Telegraph Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize 'A masterwork. The Story of Lucy Gault - a beautiful, haunting novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor 'Astonishing, tender.
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