I picked this up from Publisher’s Weekly this morning:
“Marcella Edwards at PFD has secured a new deal for William Trevor in the UK and the US. Rights for a new novel and a long-awaited collection of stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers have been sold to Tony Lacey at Penguin UK and to Kathryn Court at Viking Penguin, US (brokered by Peter Matson at SLL).
“Love and Summer is Trevor’s first novel since The Story of Lucy Gault (2002) which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Award. It will be published by Penguin in August 2009 and will be followed by The Collected Stories for Christmas 2009.
“Tony Lacey at Penguin said: “It’s been six years since William Trevor’s last, magnificent, novel, The Story of Gault, but the wait has been worth it. Love and Summer is a wonderfully observed and deeply compassionate novel about a sudden and secret love affair in a small Irish town during one long summer. One feels that only William Trevor could have written it.”
“A new novel from William Trevor is always an event,” said Edwards.”
I couldn’t agree more! We’ll be reading the advance on this one for sure. Look for our review next summer.
