The Gault couple are forced to leave their home in Ireland and go into long exile. But their nine-year-old daughter remains in their native land, whom, due to a tragic coincidence, her parents believe drowned. She has a long life ahead of her...

An amazing story that deceives all the reader’s expectations and at the same time pretends to be “simple good prose.” William Trevor, one of the most famous Modern English writers, has given us a leisurely, devoid of external effects parable, which fits the entire twentieth century.