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The William Trevor Reader: “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake”

I’m not sure how much I have to say about this one. Another first-person story, the second of this anthology, and the title piece of ’s first collection, published in 1969. We follow the narrator Mike as he goes around London getting drunk with his itinerant friend Swann, and Swann’s two women friends, Jo and Margo. Along the way, he calls Lucy, a woman he’s in love with, no fewer

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