William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault [2003] paperback CURAF Balder wants Millennium to publish

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William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault [2003] paperback CURAF Balder wants Millennium to publishShortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize 'A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer, 1921. Eight year old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that somehow she must