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The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over.
It’s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the Connultys were said to own half the town. But Miss Connulty resolves to keep an eye on Florian … and she becomes a witness to the ensuing events. In a characteristically masterful way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations in an Irish town during one long summer.
In book after book, [Trevor] has somehow turned the nondescript and the habitual into the exceptionally vivid and particular…When he wishes, as in his 1994 novel, Felicia's Journey, he can depict the most gruesome violence, but always in the same even tones with which the hens get fed. This new novel, except for the accidents that took Mrs. Connulty's husband and Dillahan's first wife, is a delicate sort of drama—there is no corpse in the basement, no bomb lies hidden in any drawer—but even so, a reader will have his heart in his mouth for the last 50 pages. And when that heart settles back down, it will be broken and satisfied…a thrilling work of art.
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Jose Lucero
reviewed Love and Summer on January 05, 2017
Love and Summer
At first I couldn't enter this story. I thought it was too fragmented, excessively focused and too detailed about daily activities, too mundane in fact for the novel with such title. But slowly I found myself attracted by its flow and quiet narration. I felt drawn to its protagonists from among every one had own story that needed to be told.
Miss Connulty, embittered old spinster, holding grudge against people and world for her unhappy bygone affair and its effects that influenced her life . Or somewhat cranky old librarian from nonexistent any more old manor, Orpen Wren , convinced that it is him who is now guardian of memory and papers of his lordship. Or middle-aged farmer Dillahan who due to tragic accident lost wife and child some years back. And here again Ellie Dillahan, foundling brought up by nuns, firstly housekeeper, at present wife of the farmer. And finally Florian Kilderry, son of talented watercolourists, still mourning for them and unrequited love for cousin Isabel, undecided and lacking true aim in life, successor of deteriorated, now put up on sale house.
At first glance it is a simple and unimpressive story set in Rathmoye, provincial Irish town, with its unchanged, rather boring rhythm, where any deviation from the daily routine is immediately noticed and commented, but somewhere under that surface troubles are brewing. Orpen Wren is sure that heir of the estate is back in the town, Ellie falls in love with young Florian while the latter is in fact one leg outside not only the town but Ireland actually.
Love and Summer is a delicate and low-key story, told with tenderness and melancholy, with pictures, that Trevor draws with such subtlety, blurred and faded as paintings in Florian's house. Summer and Love , what a clichéd title one could say, pulsates with tension and sweet poignancy, sadness of recognition and futility our expectations. Though it's my first novel of William Trevor but I somewhat sense that it is also typical of him. Both in writing style and themes and motifs. Just my feeling.
3.5/5
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