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  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969458
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

Elizabeth Alone




As Elizabeth surveys her chaotic life, she feels increasingly alone. But maybe that's how she wants to be?

After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair.
No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?

  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969458
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, most recently with The Story of Lucy Gault in 2002. Trevor was widely recognized to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language. In 1999, William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to literature. He died in 2016.

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