Death in Summer

Name: Death in Summer
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9781449814618

Author: William Trevor

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/05/2010

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction

Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor’s fiction. There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia’s, sudden and quite unexpected, leaving her husband, Thaddeus, haunted by the details of her last afternoon. The next death came some weeks later, after Thaddeus’s mother-in-law helped him to interview for a nanny to bring up their baby. None of the applicants were suitable—least of all the last one, with her sharp features, her shabby clothes that reeked of cigarettes, her badly typed references—so Letitia’s mother moved herself in. But then, just as the household was beginning to settle down, the last of the nannies surprisingly returned, her unwelcome arrival heralding the third of the summer tragedies. “William Trevor is an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence. … His skill is very real, and equals his great compassion. With Death in Summer, these two qualities combine in a beautiful and resonant way.”—The New York Time Book Review

About William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928 and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of fourteen novels and thirteen collections of short stories, and he has won many prizes. His short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker, and his Collected Stories was chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as a Best Book of the Year. His novels include Love and Summer, nominated for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Story of Lucy Gault, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and also selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Death in Summer, a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claire on June 06, 2018

I just can't get enough of Trevor's novels. But I'm already sad that one day I will run out. I loved this, perhaps not my absolute favourite, but still a good one. It's very sad. Is that enough of a review to make you go and read it?......more

Goodreads review by Preeta on April 01, 2008

William Trevor does it again. The man should be sainted or knighted, or both (simultaneously). This novel is a study in shifting close-third-person points of view, so masterfully done that you don't even notice; all POVs are equally convincing, and they range from a pair of slightly off twenty-somet......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 04, 2012

William Trevor's characters walk in shadows, moving with the somnambulistic pace of the half-alive. It is his style to remain detached, writing as one observing from an opaque distance, even when he is deep in the minds of his often-disturbed characters. This works to haunting effect in Felicia's Jo......more

Goodreads review by Mark on June 01, 2018

Creepy, suspenseful and ultimately tragic, but not in the ways you initially expect. There are sections in the first half of the book that I had to work quite hard at, with the point of view shifting in a way I found disorientating. But this was clearly the author’s intention and once I got my ear i......more

Goodreads review by Trishita on May 31, 2021

This is my third book (one short story collection and two novels) by William Trevor, and in my experience of him so far, there are some common threads running through his narratives, long and short. He’s a master at building atmosphere, always taking me places with his words. Small towns and everyda......more