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Book SynopsisPortrays two women with distinct backgrounds in two novels--Reading Turgenev and My house in Umbria--that describe how the imagination and the written word can comfort people in desperate hours
Trade ReviewAs rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reached the end of both of these marvellous novels, I wanted to start right again at the beginning * Guardian *
These novels will endure. And in every beautiful sentence there is not a word out of place -- Anita Brookner * Spectator *
Inquisitive and loving. Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today * New York Review of Books *
A writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about * Chicago Sun Times *
Reading Turgenev is one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev * Independent on Sunday *
He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting * Daily Mail *
