Love and Summer

by William Trevor

Genres: Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; 20th Century Romance

Synopsis

An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As the story unfolds, Ellie’s life is thrown into tumult by a fateful encounter with another man.

“What other living writer could so regularly follow his own masterpieces … with another and another?”—New York Times Book Review

Release date: September 17, 2009

Publisher: Penguin Books

Print pages: 224