Love And Summer Av William Trevor

<p><b>''A master of both language and storytelling'' HILARY MANTEL<br><i><br>''Compact and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .''</i></b><br><br>Rathmoye, Ireland, in the middle of the last century, and into town comes a stranger on the day of Eileen Connulty''s funeral. Taking unwanted and unasked for photographs, Florian Kilderry upsets its carefully settled status quo. But Ellie, a young convent girl married to a farmer still mourning his first wife, cannot help but be drawn to this trespassing youth. Over the course of a long, warm summer Ellie and Florian form an attachment that sleepy Rathmoye cannot ignore . . .<br><b><br>''Unbearably moving'' <i>Spectator</i></b></p>