Elizabeth Alone
'Genteel mostly, respectable all, the world here is London SW, south of the river. With a fruitful marriage (and a quick, astonishing adulterous bounce) behind her, comfortable, amiable Mrs Aidallbery — Elizabeth — is in hospital for a hysterectomy.
'So is Sylvie Clapper, with false teeth and bleached hair, young witless, cheery. She lives with a slippery Irishman: no children yet and now no chance. Likewise confined, devout Miss Samson with the raw blackberry birthmark worries about her boarding-house, for believers only, and the discovery that her Christian mentor died in disbelief. And Lily Drucker, after repeated abortions, is in for childbirth, while her clawed mother-in-law tries to bait back her son with sausage rolls and Lincoln Creams... And there is William Trevor, taking relays from flies on a hundred walls, snipping, linking, shaping his material with delicate understanding, respect and a sparing trickle — just enough — of humour... A finely observed, gently sensitive comedy, delightful to read, like lived experience to remember' — Daily Telegraph
- Author
- William Trevor
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-009756-6
- EAN
- 9780140097566
- Genres
- fiction, ireland, novels
- Release date
- 1996
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