The William Trevor Reader: “Beyond the Pale”
“Beyond the Pale” is a weird one, and in writing about it I hope to figure out what exactly it’s doing. The story concerns a quartet of English tourists who biannually ferry from their home in Surrey to visit a hotel in County Antrim, Northern Ireland called the Glencorn Lodge. The Glencorn Lodge is a private inn run by a couple called the Malseeds, who prefer not to advertise, wanting
