Love and Summer
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:23rd Jul '20
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A haunting love story by a master storyteller, now a Penguin Essential
'A master of both language and storytelling' HILARY MANTEL
'Compact and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .'
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 . . .
'Unbearably moving' Spectator
A fabulously benign book ... a work of sympathetic magic -- Sebastian Barry * Guardian *
I was totally entranced ... a rare book -- Ruth Scurr * The Times *
I can't think of anything I've read recently that has chronicled more accurately the thumping chaos of human hearts or felt more questioning and youthful and alive -- Julie Myerson * Financial Times *
ISBN: 9780241989487
Dimensions: 181mm x 111mm x 14mm
Weight: 125g
224 pages