Felicia's Journey - Softcover

Trevor, William

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ISBN 10: 0394281233 ISBN 13: 9780394281230

Publisher: Vintage Books Canada, 1995

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Full of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, collector and befriender of homeless girls, who is also searching in a way Felicia could never have imagined..."

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Review:

"Brooding, brilliant...One of the most evocative and original books to be published in recent years...Trevor weaves a web of suspense and apprehension that is at once terrifying and believable." --The London Free Press
"In reading this rich, riveting novel, the reader basks in the glow of Trevor's compassion and the consummate integrity of his pure poetic skills." --The Globe and Mail
"Perfectly executed and chilling...Mr. Trevor is able to turn the stuff of lurid, tabloid headlines into a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes." --The New York Times

About the Author:

William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys, was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature and the Whitbread Prize for fiction. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and he has bee awarded an Honorary CBE. His most recent books are Two Lives and The Collected Stories of William Trevor.

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