Author:William Trevor
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor
'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail
'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end . . . I wanted to start right again at the beginning' Guardian
In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.
My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients.
Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred . . .
'One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written' Independent on Sunday
Reading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reached the end of both of these marvellous novels, I wanted to start right again at the beginning
—— GuardianThese novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place
—— Anita Brookner , SpectatorInquisitive and loving. Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today
—— New York Review of BooksA writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about
—— Chicago Sun TimesReading Turgenev is one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev
—— Independent on SundayHe writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting
—— Daily MailThe essential novel for any Star Wars fan
—— InverseThe greatest of all novels. Read it again, to test and savour the infallible truth of Tolstoy’s understanding of every stage and aspect of human life
—— Alan Hollinghurst , New York TimesTo read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane
—— Thomas MannIn War And Peace, richly observed human life - its catastrophes and passions, its thrills and tedium - mark out Tolstoy as a fox, who knows all about the dizzying diversity of existence
—— ObserverHighly and deservedly praised...is a remarkable achievement.
—— Contemporary ReviewWonderfully readable
—— Wendy Cope , The WeekTranslators give their wits and craft selflessly in service of others' work; this is a triumph of fidelity and unpretentiousness.
—— The Independent
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