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The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor

William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.

''A small masterpiece of understatement ... a work of rare compassion'' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times

If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of s

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780241971833, 978-0241971833
      ISBN10: 0241971837
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      Book Synopsis
      The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor

      William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.

      ''A small masterpiece of understatement ... a work of rare compassion'' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times

      If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.

      William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of s

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