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First Folio Society Edition. 240mm x 170mm (9″ x 7″). xiii, 336pp + plates. 9 colour plates. VG : in Very good condition, dark blue dust jacket Pictorial cloth boards and silver gilt titles.

This collection of stories, set in Ireland, traces the lives of ordinary people who live determinedly comfortable and normal lives by blinding themselves to the violent reality hovering all around

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned short-story writer, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime’s literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. He now lives in Devon.