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  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969335
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $27.99

Miss Gomez And The Brethren




A classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers - part of Penguin's stunning reinvention of William Trevor's backlist over 2014 and 2015

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss Gomez, on the run from her tragic childhood in Jamaica, now lives for her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way back on the island. No one will believe Miss Gomez when she announces her revelation of a hideous sex crime soon to be committed in Crow Street. That is, until young Prudence Tuke disappears, the police arrive, and the newspapers herald a 'Sex Crime Prophecy'...

  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969335
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $27.99

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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