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  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969274
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

The Boarding House




William Bird leaves his boarding house to two of his tenants - those he hopes will cause most havoc

William Bird has always taken in boarders who are on the fringes of society: the petty conman, the immigrant who's never been able to fit in, the blustering officer who really doesn't know what's what , and the just plain lonely. He's built a unique place with a unique atmosphere. But then he realizes he's dying, and he decides to leave the place to the two tenants likely to cause the greatest amount of trouble, and the whole enterprise goes up in smoke.
William Trevor's dark comedy, reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, was his second novel.

  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241969274
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • 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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