Eyes and Ears
Anthony Thwaite, 23 June 1988
The Silence in the Garden
by William Trevor.
Bodley Head, 204 pp., £9.95, June 1988,9780370312187 Show More
by William Trevor.
Bodley Head, 204 pp., £9.95, June 1988,
The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B. Yehoshua
Peter Halban/Weidenfeld, 377 pp., £11.95, June 1988,1 870015 14 2 Show More
Peter Halban/Weidenfeld, 377 pp., £11.95, June 1988,
“... gentry and the mass of submerged peasantry. The Rollestons’ family house of Carriglas, in County Cork, is the setting of The Silence in the Garden – decayed gentry rather than middle class. The Rollestons established their inheritance centuries before the book begins, and had an ancestral reputation for decency and kindness to their tenants during the ... ”