Felicia's Journey

William Trevor

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Felicia, young and pregnant, steals away from a small Irish town to search for her boyfriend in the industrial sprawl of the English Midlands, where she falls in with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch. He is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls of his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story more resonant than ever with Trevor's "impeccable strength and piercing profundity" (Washington Post Book World).

Book Details

Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1996
Pages: 240
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.78in - 5.05in - 0.48in - 0.37lb
EAN: 9780140253603
Recommended age: 18-UP
Categories: • Psychological• Thrillers - Suspense• Media Tie-In

About the Author

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia's Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture, and The Story of Lucy Gault, which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by The New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker. In 1997, he was named Honorary Commander of the British Empire.

Praise for this book

"A page-turner marked by brilliant psychological suspense."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Felicia's Journey is packed with extraordinary passages."
--Time

"A battle for the soul, waged between the forces of good and evil . . . Mr. Trevor shows just how wise and wry and funny and morally astute an observer of the human comedy he is."
--Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review

"A thriller lifted to the level of high art . . ."
--Publishers Weekly

"In thirteen novels and eight short-story collections [William Trevor] has shown himself a close observer, a fine stylist, a master psychologist. In Felicia's Journey . . . he brings all these qualities into play, and adds to them a teasing manipulation of the reader's sensibilities, so that the book has the elegant tensions of a high-class thriller."
--The New York Review of Books

"One of the very best writers of our era."
--The Washington Post Book World