Two Lives by William Trevor was a Christmas gift (thanks, Pat!). I LOVED the first story (Reading Turgenev) and wished it had been longer. And, while I liked the second story (My House in Umbria), the first one really was much better. Amazon: “In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colorful pasts for her patients. Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred.” I merged my feelings about both to one number (5 stars for Reading Turgenev and 3 stars for My House in Umbria).