William Trevor

Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows 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.

The story of a frustrated romance between a young, married ex-convent girl and a visiting stranger in a small Irish town over one long summer.

Wealthy widow Norah ONeill wonders if she will ever marry again. When her son decides to close the familys failing toy factory, the manager, a decent man who dances the quickstep beautifully, becomes unemployed. Suddenly, Norah sees her chance for happiness, in a new venture of her own.

William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person's obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.

Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.

Dieser Roman, der fur den Man Booker Prize 2002 nominiert war, beschreibt das landliche Irland der 20er Jahre und die dort herrschenden Spannungen. Es geht aber auch darum, wie der Zufall das Leben nachhaltig und unwiderruflich verandern kann. This novel which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2002 beautifully evokes rural Ireland and the tensions existing there. William Trevor, geboren 1928, verbrachte seine Kindheit im landlichen Irland. Er besuchte das Trinity College in Dublin und ist Mitglied der Irish Academy of Letters. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst Romane und Erzahlungen und wurde mit zahlreichen literarischen Preisen ausgezeichnet. So erhielt er 1999 den David Cohen British Literature Prize fur sein Gesamtwerk und 2008 den Bob Hughes Lifetime Award.

It is summer 1921 and eight-year-old Lucy Gault stays close to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the much-loved house that her family is being forced to abandon. Danger threatend and the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that she must force her parents into staying. But her choice ends in a disaster that blights the lives of the Gaults and binds each of them to this one moment in time, to this beautiful stretch of coast ...

A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequences cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to bring back to life the now very strange seeming English world of thirty years ago.

Felicia busca a Johnny desesperadamente; es decir, lo espera encadenada en cuerpo y alma. Se conocieron en Irlanda, en una boda en la que ambos fueron invitados y se amaron o creyeron amarse. Él se va a Inglaterra donde ha encontrado trabajo sin dejar su nueva direccion y ella decide cruzar el mar para reencontrarlo. En su vagabundeo, sin medios, enferma de amor, Felicia se enfrenta a la gran ciudad, en su dia industrialmente floreciente, hoy negra, devastada por la crisis, el paro, el racismo, la violencia. Johnny no aparece, en cambio Felicia conoce a personajes pintorescos. Entre ellos Hilditch, inquietante compañero de infortunios, que no puede impedir la bajada a los infiernos de Felicia buscando su fantasmagorico amor, el instante de felicidad que ya se fue, en medio de un mundo que carece de solidaridad. El viaje de Felicia obtuvo en 1994 los premios Whitbread y Sunday Express. El director Atom Egoyan ha hecho una version cinematografica de la misma.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of 'good books for all'. William Trevor's The Dressmaker's Child features three stories, specially selected by the author. It includes the title story, never before published in the UK, and two stories from the award-winning collections After Rain and The Hill Bachelors.

William Trevor is an undisputed master of the short story but, perhaps, less known for his novels. Felicia's Journey, which follows the journey of a young, innocent girl from rural Ireland to Birmingham, is bursting with understated mood and atmosphere. Perfectly crafted and wonderfully cinematic (you may have seen director Atom Egoyan's recent screen adaptation starring Bob Hoskins) it screams with a sinister undercurrent of menace; there are few writers who say so much so quietly. 'You're beautiful', Johnny told her and so, full of hope seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Searching desperately for Johnny, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, pudgy canteen catering manager, collector and befriender of homeless young girls.

Paddy Old, el hombre más viejo de Tipperany, se ganÛ siempre la vida recorriendo el país y contando historias.A Juliet le encantaba escucharle: ´El marinero y la rataª, ´La rata que era un hadaª, ´El

Novela finalista del Premio Booker en 2002, La Historia de Lucy Gault es la última obra publicada por William Trevor, considerado uno de los mejores narradores irlandeses vivos. Fascinado por el influjo que la Historia ejerce en el destino de los individuos, Trevor ha dado voz a las víctimas y los marginados, procurando reflejar los mundos alternativos en que estas personas se recluyen para protegerse de una realidad que se niega a satisfacer sus deseos más íntimos. Ese universo de aislamiento personal, en el contexto de una comunidad que se desintegra, es el distintivo de un autor al que se ha comparado nada menos que con su compatriota James Joyce.En el condado de Cork, en la costa sureste de Irlanda, el capitán Gault, su esposa Heloise y su hija Lucy, de ocho años, sufren el rechazo de sus vecinos por su supuesta simpatía con el enemigo inglés. Ante la creciente animadversión local, los Gault deciden marcharse a Inglaterra, pero poco antes de su partida la pequeña Lucy desaparece, y los únicos rastros hallados parecen indicar que la niña se ha ahogado. Abrumados por el dolor, los Gault inician un largo peregrinaje por media Europa conel firme propósito de cortar los lazos con la tierra donde se fraguó su desgracia, ignorantes de que están dando pie a una tragedia humana aún mayor, que convertirá a Lucy en una leyenda entre los habitantes de la zona.

A treat . . . each meditate[s] on the subject of love - adulterous, unspoken, clandestine, sometimes cruel - from domestic betrayals to office romances. Whether set in rural Ireland or London, their pages whisper of relished secrets and dreams foolishly clung to' Mail on Sunday ...

Features the awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.