Felicias Journey, William Trevor
Felicias Journey, William Trevor
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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


Synopsis

-A stunning, rich novel of suspense from one of Ireland's most distinguished writers. In Felicia's Journey, Trevor gently explores the intricate relationship between a predator and his intended victim. Felicia is young and pregnant, having stolen away from a small Irish town to search for her boyfriend in the industrial sprawl of the English Midlands. Fat, 50ish, and unfailingly reasonable, Mr. Hilditch is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls he has "befriended." Under Trevor's master hand, both characters become startlingly sympathetic in their tragic dance from which only one of them will emerge victorious-and alive.

About William Trevor

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on May 04, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Violet on November 05, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Jibran on October 13, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Michael on August 18, 2017

Deliberate, precise, and suffused with dread, this novel explores the lies we all tell ourselves and each other, and how much we're willing to do in the name of our shabby little fantasies.......more