Two Lives Av William Trevor

<p><i>Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria</i> - two novels by William Trevor<br><br>''Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart'' <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>''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'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>In <i>Reading Turgenev</i> 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.<br><br><i>My House in Umbria</i> 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.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br>''One of the most beautiful and memorable t