Title: The hill bachelors
First published: 2000
Description: "The Hill Bachelors contains a dozen new stories, set mostly but not entirely in Ireland.".

"In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance.".

"William Trevor writes about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Manners and customs, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Irish Short stories, Large type books, English Short stories
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 20th century