The William Trevor Reader: “Virgins”
by Adam O’Fallon Price
May 23, 2023
2 minutes
“Virgins” concerns the war-time and postwar adolescent friendship of two girls, Laura and Margaretta. Laura, the story’s focal POV, is sent from England by her mother to live with her mother’s friend’s family, the Heaslips, in Ireland during the rationing years of late-World War II. Laura and the Heaslips’ daughter Margaretta become fast best friends, and the story spends the majority of its length detailing the several-year evolution
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