![]() He is struggling with a declining congregation and she from the despondency of a recent miscarriage. There is Quentin Featherston, the vicar, and his wife Lavinia. Dynmouth is a rather ordinary sea side resort town inhabited by unremarkable people. The "Children of Dynmouth" follows a motif seen in many of his works. That work was actually the first of his I read years ago and was completely captivated by his extraordinarily luminous and supple prose. A short time ago I purchased from one of the remainder websites a set of Penguin reprints of his early novels none of which I had read before except the marvelous novella "Nights at the Alexandra". ![]() His novels are similarly jewels of writing. ![]() He was widely known for his short stories, surely one of the century's great craftsmen of this genre. I have long so admired his writing and he leaves us with some of the most entrancing works in our language. The great William Trevor passed away this week. ![]()
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