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  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241971833
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

The Children Of Dynmouth




A dark and haunting story of the evil which lurks in unexpected places

William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person's obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.

  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241971833
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • 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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