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    The William Trevor Reader: “Nice Day at School”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Jan 18, 2022 3 minutes

    This is a good one that inverts the usual elements—the main character, Eleanor, is an adolescent girl rather than elderly spinster, and rather than backgrounding the proceedings with pervy energy, the perviness is the main event: all the girls in Eleanor’s grade are losing their virginity, and as Eleanor holds out, she worries about becoming an old maid like her teacher Miss Whitehead. It isn’t just the schoolgirls having sex, either. Everyone in Eleanor’s life,

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