William Trevor

Fiction by William Trevor: “She’d been impulsive once upon a time, hasty and not caring that she was. Tups had called her a spur-of-the-moment girl.”

Cecilia caught a single glimpse of the two women and looked away and didn’t look again. Whoever was on afternoon duty would surely ask them what they …

Fiction, from 2006: They were nine years old then, when secrets became deception.

Fina and John Michael have grown up together in a small seashore village in Ireland, and plan to marry. John Michael's widowed mother dies; her son …

Harriet sat at a solitary table in the dining room of the Pensione Cesarina in Italy. She has come here alone because of a recently ended love affair. …

Joanna declared that she was going to marry Damian when she was five years old. Twenty years later, when he was in his sixties, Damian appeared at the home…

In 1951, Charles, married to Zoe, had an affair with Audrey, a beautiful young woman who worked in his office. Audrey lived with her plain friend, Grace, …

Harry, the narrator, recalls when he was 15, growing up in Ireland, and being befriended by an older, married woman. Harry's family was Protestant, of …

Story set in 1847 Ireland during the height of the Potato Famine. Poor Irish Protestants is what the Fogartys are: Butler & cook. Fogarty is presently …

An English group, Dekko, Strafe, Strafe's wife Cynthia, and Milly play bridge together, and have always spent their June holiday together in an Irish …

Canon Moran, a Church of Ireland clergyman, lives alone in a rectory in County Wexford. His wife Frances has died but hasn't "yet become a ghost." What…

Francis runs a hardware store in County Tipperary Ireland and lives with his 80 year old mother. His brother, Father Paul (a priest) comes to visit once a …