The Story of Lucy Gault, (Paperback)

from philipspires

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor is a novel with such a strong sense of place that it is hard not read it with a consciously-applied west of Ireland accent. The sounds seem to fit so perfectly. The book is the story of Lucy, her immediate family and their acquaintances. At the start Lucy...

from msf59

Nine year old Lucy Gault loves Lahardane, her Irish country home. When her parents decide to leave the country for awhile, Lucy flees into the woods. After a tragic misunderstanding, Lucy is thought to have died and her family relocates and when Lucy returns, she finds herself all alone. This sho...

from scohva

A quietly sad story about a woman who has put her life on hold because of a choice she made as a child. Trevor describes the way this choice affects all who were involved throughout the rest of their lives. The descriptions of coastal Ireland are very atmospheric - it also made me realize how lit...

from scohva

A quietly sad story about a woman who has put her life on hold because of a choice she made as a child. Trevor describes the way this choice affects all who were involved throughout the rest of their lives. The descriptions of coastal Ireland are very atmospheric - it also made me realize how lit...

from ursula

So many times in our lives, we can look back at moments of chance or luck that changed everything. These moments can be positive or negative, major or minor: if you hadn't bought that raffle ticket on a whim, you wouldn't have won a vacation. If you had been distracted for a second longer, you wo...