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. 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. In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. 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. He does not burden the reader with philosophizing speculation or arguments for a particular political point of view. Trevor tells stories, offering fictional realities in a clear, matter-of-fact style. I wanted to start right again at the beginning' Guardian Trevor’s fiction, in fact, explores some of the same territory as popular novels do, though its landmarks are the ruined lives of tragedy. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years.
Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail Two Lives (includes Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria ).London and New York, Viking, 1991. Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor PENGUIN BOOKS TWO LIVES William Trevor was born in 1928 at Mitchelstown, County Cork, spent his childhood in provincial Ireland, and now lives in Devon.
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