title: The Story of Lucy Gault: A Novel
author:  William Trevor 
description: &quot;Captain Everard Gault wounded the boy in the right shoulder on the night of June the twenty-first, nineteen twenty-one.&quot; So opens Trevor's latest novel, with an act of political violence: the setting is rural Ireland, the Captain's wife is English, and three youths have come, under cover of darkness, to set fire to the family house. The wounding is, as it happens, an accident&mdash;the shot had been intended merely as a warning&mdash;but it quickly becomes clear to the Gaults that they must leave their beloved home. Eight-year-old Lucy, however, has other ideas, and her rebellion has devastating consequences. How should the loyalties to past and future, family and country, be measured? The tragedies that befall the Gaults are difficult to bear, because no one is clearly accountable. As the author delicately probes the nature of personal and political responsibility, the reader squirms with discomfort, longing for a scapegoat and yet aware of the implications of that longing. <br> Copyright &copy; 2005 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Yorker/dp/B00005N7T5/"><i>The New Yorker</i></a>
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  She would never bow to any man…
  
  LONDON, 1815
  
  Trevor Bailey is on the cusp of opening the greatest hotel in London. His days
  as a gutter snipe are behind him, as he enjoys a life of wealth, society, and
  clandestine assignments as a spy in the service of the Crown. Until one
  tumultuous night churns up the past he’d long left behind…
  
  Turned out by her employer for her radical beliefs, Lucy Greenleaf reaches out
  to the man who was once her most beloved friend. She never expected that the
  once-mischievous Trevor would be so handsome and gentleman-like and neither
  can deny the instant attraction.
  
  But Lucy’s reformer ways pose a threat to the hotel’s future and his duties as
  a spy. Now Trevor must choose between his new life and the woman he’s always
  loved…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are