The Story of Lucy Gault (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Trevor Cox
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: A rural community in County Cork, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Lucy Gault, Captain Everard Gault, Heloise Gault, Horahan, Henry
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Alienation, Guilt, Nationalism, Accidents, Loneliness, Ireland or Irish people, Isolation, Protestantism or Protestant churches
- Locales: Cork, Ireland
One night in June, 1921, during the height of the Anglo-Irish conflict, three local nationalists approach the home of the Gaults, an Anglo-Irish family living in one of the Ascendancy Big Houses, Lahardane, in County Cork. Attempting to protect his property, Captain Gault accidentally wounds one of the boys, Horahan, and sets off a chain of accidents that culminate in a family tragedy.
When Captain Gault cannot make reparations to the boy’s family, he is convinced that another attack is imminent and prepares to relocate his family to England. His daughter, Lucy, resenting the...
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