An unlikely group of survivors confront their past traumas to find connection and community in the Italian countryside
Mrs. Emily Delahunty—a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam—quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors—an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy—and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
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An unlikely group of survivors confront their past traumas to find connection and community in the Italian countryside
Mrs. Emily Delahunty—a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam—quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors—an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy—and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
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