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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Lucy, Gault, War entitled The Story of Lucy Gault. Start with the sentence 'The Story of Lucy Gault: It begins with Lucy, on a night in 1921'.
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conversations.value: The Story of Lucy Gault: It begins with Lucy, on a night in 1921.\nShe is the only child of an Anglo-Irish land owner on the coast of County Cork.\nIt starts during the Irish War of Independence, when Loyalist Protestant landowners caught in the battle between the IRA and the British army had their houses burned.\nThe place is under martial law and Captain Gault is disturbed by young arsonists from the nearby village.\nWhen he fires a warning shot with his old rifle, he injures a boy in the shoulder.\nOut of fear, the family plans to move to England.\nLucy is not told why her family wishes to move and longs for the house she was kept from and the sea close by.\nOn the eve of their departure, she hides in the woods.\nDue to a series of events, her parents are led to believe that she drowned in the sea.\nBy the time she is discovered, her parents are gone.\nShe thus gets what she wished for, to live in the house, being taken care of by the house servants turned caretaker-farmers.\nLucy lives a very lonely life, reading books and keeping bees.\nShe feels very guilty about running away and thus feels that she deserves her loneliness.\nWhen another character, Ralph, tries to relieve her of her sad life, she feels that she cannot let him love her without, one of the characters opines, getting forgiveness from her parents.\nHer father returns after the Second World War, having spent the previous years in Italy and Switzerland, too late to salvage her happiness.\nThey settle into an uneasy companionship, with too much unspoken.\nHaving lost the love of her life, she forms a bond with the person who was wounded by her father.\nLucy spends many years visiting the asylum where the person is incarcerated in his confusion and his silence.\nLucy in old age sees people with phones to their ears and hears on the wireless about the Internet, and wonders what it is.