The William Trevor Reader: “Her Mother’s Daughter”
It’s a kind of praise—and I don’t think backhanded or damningly faint—to say that while I did not particularly enjoy reading “Her Mother’s Daughter,” I was acutely aware while reading that only could have (or would have) written it. The protagonist is a girl named Helena, who lives with her mother in a southwest suburb of London. Helena’s father died when she was eight (on her birthday,
