num_pages: 208
description: William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. 'A small masterpiece of understatement ... a work of rare compassion' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.  William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
language: English
title: The Children of Dynmouth
titlecomplete: The Children of Dynmouth
characters: Timothy Gedge
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Irish Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fiction, Ireland
ratings_count: 984
places: England, Devon, England
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.