The William Trevor Reader: “Honeymoon in Tramore”
by Adam O’Fallon Price
Jul 04, 2023
3 minutes
“Honeymoon in Tramore” is a simple one, but it’s the kind of simplicity only a fully mature writer is capable of. It feels like a compressed, almost shorthand 10-page version of the 20-to-25-page monster we’ve encountered several times before. (I mean this in an entirely good way.)
We meet the -esquely named Davy Toome and the mononymic Kitty as they enter the inn in Tramore, County Waterford, where they’re spending their honeymoon, in the year 1948. The story slowly reveals their
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