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This book, like every line of William Trevor's I've read, quietly broke my heart. How he makes a story so perfectly sad out of normal people, none of whom are evil or stupid or crazy, blows me away. In fact the saddest thing about this book is that everyone in it is so *good* (but not unbelievably so), and all it takes is one small mistake -- even to call it a mistake seems an exaggeration -- to ruin their lives. It sounds incredibly manipulative, maybe, when summarised like that, but Trevor is never manipulative.