

Felicia's Journey
Author: William Trevor
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/05/2010
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: William Trevor
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/05/2010
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928 and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of fourteen novels and thirteen collections of short stories, and he has won many prizes. His short stories appeared regularly in the New Yorker, and his Collected Stories was chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as a Best Book of the Year. His novels include Love and Summer, nominated for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Story of Lucy Gault, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and also selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Death in Summer, a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.
Not your usual Trevor. A bit of a mystery and almost noir. A young woman in Ireland takes the ferry to England searching for the father of her unborn baby. He may (or may not) be “working in a lawnmower factory” in the Midlands as he said. Or, as is rumored, he may be in the British army, a travesty......more
The lower your self-esteem the more prone you are to believing the lies you tell yourself, the more prone you are to ignoring factual realities. Sometimes these lies become the guiding principle, in lieu of mounting contrary evidence, of how you see yourself and what you do. This is my second Trevor......more
Her mourning is to wonder. [2.5] The storyline immediately catches the eye: a teenage Irish girl abandons her family, leaves her hometown, and crosses over to England to find the elusive lover who impregnated her during a brief encounter they had had at home. In England, without knowing the whereabout......more