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The story of lucy gault reviews5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘William Trevor is an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence. 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. None of the applicants were suitable – least of all the last one, with her small, sharp features, her shabby clothes that reeked of cigarettes, her badly typed references – so Letitia’s mother moved in herself. 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. The first was Letitia’s, sudden and quite unexpected, leaving her husband, Thaddeus, haunted by the details of her last afternoon. Astonishing’ Los Angeles Times Book Review ‘Possibly the most perfect of Trevor’s novels. Death In Summer – a beautiful and haunting novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor ![]()
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