by William Trevor · Knopf Canada · tapa dura · ISBN 9780676975444
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«The Story of Lucy Gault» is the historical novel by William Trevor, published by Knopf Canada in hardback (240 pages, in English).
In rural Ireland in 1921, nine-year-old Lucy Gault cannot bear the idea of leaving her home when her parents decide to flee the violence, so she hides in the woods. The misunderstanding that follows separates the family for decades and turns her story into a tale of love, guilt and forgiveness.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award in 2002, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award in 2003.
For book clubs and for readers of literary and historical fiction set in twentieth-century Ireland.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
