The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
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The Story of Lucy Gault

Author: William Trevor

Narrator: Terry Donnelly

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/05/2010

Synopsis

WINNER: Man Booker Prize for Fiction • New York Times Notable Book  “The Story of Lucy Gault … once read, will never be forgotten.”—Washington Post Book World  “Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov.”—Wall Street Journal  The stunning novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England, her mother’s home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country house with its beautiful land and nearby beach, and a dog she has befriended. On the day before they are to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay. Instead, she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of Lahardane’s inhabitants for the rest of their lives. 

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 Jim

[Edited, picture added, spoilers hidden 1/28/22] I don’t usually binge on authors but I’ve enjoyed reading Trevor on and off in 2017. This is my fifth, including Summer in the Garden, Love and Summer, Felicia’s Journey and The Children of Dynmouth. Like most of the other Trevors, the setting is a smal......more

Goodreads review by Vit

William Trevor was a great master of psychologically dark tales… …she often passed on to Lucy tales of disaster or thwarted love that turned out happily in the end. Cinderellas arrived at the ball, sword fights were won by the more handsome contender, modesty was rewarded with riches. No Cinderellas w......more

Goodreads review by Candi

3.5 stars “Disobedience had been a child’s defiance, deception the coinage they had offered her themselves.” Misunderstandings and miscommunications abound in human relationships. Perhaps even more so when one is dealing with a young child. A child senses something not quite right in his or her world,......more

Goodreads review by Jaline

This finely crafted novel follows the life of Lucy Gault through childhood, young adulthood, middle age, and on into her elder years. When she was nine years old in 1921, she was confused by the decision her parents made to leave Ireland for a time due to the troubles and their fear of harm coming t......more

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