Full name: Felicia's Journey: A Novel

Author: William Trevor Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Award winners Culture: Ireland Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140253603 0140253602

Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor's own "impeccable strength and piercing profundity" (The Washington Post Book World). Similar books: The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen Fools of Fortune by William Trevor The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Amongst Women by John McGahern That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker G. by John Berger The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme The Book of Evidence by John Banville The Newton Letter by John Banville The Untouchable by John Banville Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle The Sea by John Banville After Rain by William Trevor History of the Rain by Niall Williams