William Trevor is one of my favourite writers and Lucy Gault, being one of his more famous works, is on my to-read list so it's disappointing that it's not great. Have you read any of his other stuff? I loved Bodily Secrets and Matilda's England is also good - I will cop to most of his stories involving characters without agency but I think that's problematised in most of them.
I read Reading Turgenev, a novella, a few years ago and remember liking it better, though it had the same atmosphere I kind of like and kind of find constricting. The library I was in when I had a sudden urge to try him again only had Lucy Gault, though I did have a vague idea there were others of his I would have been more interested in.
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