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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads William Trevor

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Death of the Welsh Poppies All Over Again

Mrs. Leathwest found out about her husband's other woman while on holiday in France seven years ago. The letter had been placed in someone else's key box by mistake, and was later handed to her with a paliver of apologies when her husband was swimming in the Mediterranean. She knew it once, the instinct of a barren wife, she afterwards called it to herself. So this was why he made a point of being down before her every morning, why he had always done so during their September holiday in France.

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