Felicia's Journey: A Novel - Softcover

Trevor, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140253602 ISBN 13: 9780140253603

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

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).

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Review:

"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

From the Back Cover:

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award

'You're beautiful.' Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls . . .

'Immensely readable. The plot twist is both sinister and affecting, and so skilfully done that you remember why authors had plot twists in the first place'
Phillip Hensher, GUARDIAN

'Immaculately calculated, cunning. We are as startled as his characters when the faint air of menace turns into a tempost'
SUNDAY TRIBUNE

'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling. This sinister, elegant, piercingly sad novel is surely one of the books of the year'
Hilary Mantel, SUNDAY EXPRESS

'A masterpiece, You read and are dazzled. It has one of the most memorable and convincing, most sinister and terrifying of characters created in the modern novel'
Susan Hill

'Masterly in its tension' IRISH TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140253602
• ISBN 13: 9780140253603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224