He’s quite comfortable around adults and able to engage in proper conversations with them. Initially, Timothy comes across as friendly and helpful, even charming. In this case, it’s a lonely teenage boy called Timothy Gedge, who is obsessed with a serial killer from the past, and the setting is a small village where everyone knows everyone else and therefore can’t escape or ignore the lad. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up his 1976 novel The Children of Dynmouth, but it didn’t take long for me to feel that I was on familiar William Trevor turf in which he takes a seemingly ordinary character with eccentric traits and lets them loose in a confined setting, such as a pub ( Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel), boarding house ( Miss Gomez and the Brethren) or hospital ward ( Elizabeth Alone), to see what will unfold. The first Sunday of the month means it’s time to review another William Trevor book as part of A Year With William Trevor, which I am co-hosting with Cathy from 746 Books. A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023įiction – paperback Penguin 195 pages 2014.
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