Description
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 Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But 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 ). "A page-turner marked by brilliant psychological suspense."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Perfectly executed and chilling. . . . A sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes."-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Whitbread Fiction Prize and the Sunday Express Prize Felicia's Journey appeared on the Boston Globe , San Francisco Chronicle , New York Newsday , and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists
