Irish Author William Trevor's LOVE and SUMMER, Great Reading Anytime

William Trevor (b. Ireland 1928) is a highly regarded novelist & short story writer.  Trevor has been nominated for the Man Booker 5 times and honored with the Bob Hughes Life Achievement Award in Irish Lit ('08.)  His earlier novel "The Story of Lucy Gault" ('02) won both the Man Booker & Whitbread Prize.  His more recent novel, "Love and Summer" ('09) is an eloquent story told from multi-protagonists all bound by logistics in a small Irish town after WWII.  The voices of each character emits despair with all its bitterness.  The 1st voice comes from the grave belonging to the recently deceased Mrs. Connulty.  Mrs. Connulty carries her disappointment with her daughter & husband with her to the grave.  The banal lives of the villagers of Rathmoye are fractured by the town's dilapidation & the dereliction of the townspeople's wasted lives.  Unrequited love is a prevailing theme which ripples around the illicit sexual awakening of Ellie.  Ellie was raised by nuns in an orphanage and considered fortunate to have found home & husband.  Nonetheless, Ellie shares feelings of abandonment, guilt & disillusion with various others in the village.  Trevor's talented writing presents various perspectives on similar predicaments which evoke deep pathos for his characters.  "Love and Summer" captures universal  yearnings & dismay in a timeless, unforgettable way.  "The time for pain was over, yet her wish was that it should not be, that there should always be something left."