Two Lives (1991) consists of a pair of novellas by Irish writer William Trevor and published as a single book.

Reading Turgenev deals with the life of Mary Louise Dallon, a farm girl from southeastern Ireland who marries an older draper named Elmer Quarry.

She falls in love with her invalid cousin Robert, who introduces her to the works of great Russian writers (including Ivan Turgenev).

She eventually goes mad and structures her life around preserving the existence of Robert to the finest detail possible, including re-creating his room and possessions in her attic.

The novella has been made into a made-for-television film, also entitled My House in Umbria, which departs substantially from the somber plot of the original.