Description
Set in the idyllic Irish countryside of the 1950s, this quiet, subtly luminous novel follows Ellie, a shy young woman whose life unfolds in the spaces between duty and desire. As she moves from orphaned outsider to wife within a farmer’s household, the pressures of family debt and the slow, intimate negotiations of love draw her toward a young man who complicates everything she thought she wanted. With characteristic restraint and sympathy, William Trevor renders human happiness as something fragile yet real—achieved not through grand gestures, but through small choices, hard truths, and the persistence of feeling. Themes of belonging, inheritance, and the moral weight of relationships are threaded through a story that feels almost like a benediction, even as larger forces press in.
Available Editions
ebook
Penguin USA, Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2009
157 pages
ISBN: 9781101147702
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Love and Summer by William Trevor.