Love and Summer
#1754 of 8,085 books · #291 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2011). Also longlisted for 1 other award.
It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their inevitable course.
- Publisher
- Viking
- ISBN-13
- 9780141924205
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Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2011)
- The Booker PrizeLonglistedMajor(2009)
Other awarded books from William Trevor
- Death in Summer (1999)0 wins · 4 score
- Felicia's Journey (2004)0 wins · 4 score
- Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (2015)0 wins · 4 score
- Reading Turgenev (2004)0 wins · 4 score
- The Children of Dynmouth (1976)0 wins · 4 score
- The Story of Lucy Gault (2011)0 wins · 4 score
- William Trevor: The Collected Stories (2009)0 wins · 4 score
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