Irish · b. 1928
William Trevor was an Irish writer regarded as one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language, author of Felicia's Journey and many acclaimed collections.
William Trevor was a master of the short story and the novel, often compared to Chekhov for his quiet precision, compassion, and unflinching insight into the disappointments and secret lives of ordinary people.
Over a long career he produced numerous acclaimed story collections and novels, including Felicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Novel Award and became a film, and The Story of Lucy Gault. His fiction, frequently rooted in Ireland and England, is marked by subtlety, restraint, and deep humanity.
Trevor is celebrated as one of the supreme short-story writers of his era, a quiet master of the form whose work repays the closest attention.
by William Trevor
In 1921, Protestant Anglo-Irish landowners prepare to leave Ireland for England. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault runs away to prevent them leaving; she is assumed drowned; her parents depart in grief. She grows up alone in the empty house. The novel follows the consequences across sixty years.
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