Ellie and Florian - she a lonely and nun-ridden married young woman, he a loner, the last member of a loving family - meet casually and a friendship/romance begins which lifts both their lives. The gossip which threatens in the small Irish village doesn't reach them, but still we know, even if they don't, that the relationship is impossible. The other characters in the book are all real and indispensable to the story. Trevor does it again!
(Julie Higgins - bwl 54 November 2009 ) |
