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Sat 08 Aug 2009From Love and Summer by William Trevor
EXTRACT:In this extract from his new novel, ‘Love and Summer’, William Trevor sets the scene for a story in which Miss Connulty is liberated by the death of her imperious mother while the curiosity of Ellie, a farmer’s wife, is aroused by the arrival of a dark-haired stranger, Florian Kilderry, to Rathmoye
ON A JUNE evening some years after the middle of the last century Mrs Eileen Connulty passed through the town of Rathmoye: from Number 4 The Square to Magennis Street, into Hurley Lane, along Irish Street, across Cloughjordan Road to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. Her night was spent there.
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