Story of Lucy Gault
am attracted to the title, and to the cover. have been before,
and now when top book of an order in the mailroom, find am
arranging so as to keep it visible.
but: Ireland. ~ and opening sentences do not draw me.
storyline does appeal- 9yrld Lucy.

what else in this order? another William Trevor (have been considering attraction or not, since MrsFisher in her Nyer) and cloth volume stories of Alan Bennett yes do like him from P&P rvw little gifty The Clothes We Stood Up In he's British ~ a playwright ~ and oh last in stack is re Heidegger, so.
and ah~ ha - Wysk same cust to whom sent books today and I liked hers, just made note at dlcs:

az- Chip Kidd: Book One Work 1986-2006 "th closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today) Chip Kidd master of book design.// I d n like the large 'stylish'ness 'richlyproduced' book but wld like look thru -collects all of his book covers&designs//oh -and- designs (?) books AND books - PauldawgConstant teasing Kate re her Tenn bkst - oh AND you sold magazines?!
az- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - by Alison Bechdel [graphic novel - author of Dykes to Watch Out For strip]
Father's court trial re dealings w a young boy oversh early teen yrs;his death,prob a suicide, oversh her coming out. her childhd as a "still life with children" th father made. title -father proprietr funeral parlor + imgns slf arist, has gothic home
az- Fear of Small Numbers : An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet) by Arjun Appadurai these three books fr one cust mailordr, nice lkg set o bks ...to z0606 books ... on june 6

A difficult novel for any parent to read, William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault recounts [not based on actual is it?] the tale of a young girl whose Protestant family is driven from its rural Irish home in 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy is in love with Lahardane: the old house itself, the woods, the nearby beach, the shells and fir cones and sticks that she collected like treasure. The day before her family is scheduled to flee Ireland, leaving the house and furnishings in the care of trusted servants, Lucy runs away. Her parents, finding a scrap of her clothing on the beach, assume the worst. Days later, they leave Lahardane, choosing not to settle in England, as they had planned, but to roam Europe in their grief, leaving no forwarding address. But Lucy has not killed herself; she's only broken her leg in the woods. Eventually she makes it back to the house to find her parents gone. She spends her childhood waiting to be forgiven for her wicked act, postponing all happiness until she can be reunited with her mother and father. Revealing more of the plot will spoil this lovely novel for its many readers. It is enough to note that Trevor's characteristic depth and emotional complexity are fully realized here in the watchful reticence of his young heroine and the strange but beautiful way she finds to express her own forgiveness. --Regina Marler, az