Also after reading a series of duds for the past few weeks, this book came as a relief. It seems that Trevor’s characters are victims of circumstance and one little act of fate determines their destinies.Īlongside this wonderful McEwanesque plot there is Trevor’s writing style, which builds and releases tensions with every paragraph and this makes Felicia’s Journey fantastic reading. Hilditch has quite a few disturbing secrets and the charismatics also discover that things are not as they seem either.įelicia’s Journey does deal mostly with illusion (as in appearances) and reality but this all comes out in the novel’s dramatic conclusion, this all comes to light through one of the character’s committing suicide so death is seen as some sort of release. By the end of the novel Felicia discovers that Mr. On top of that Felicia has a run in with a charismatic group and leaves a bad impression on them. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Hilditch, who actually preys on young women who are in need. Felicias Journey William Trevor 3.68 3,656 ratings437 reviews Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140253603 Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. On the way she bumps into the obese, lonely Mr. Pregnant and abandoned by her family, Felicia leaves her native Ireland for London, mainly to find the father of her child and discuss the baby’s future. Thank goodness Felicia’s Journey was a much better experience. Although I didn’t mind those two novellas, I can’t say I warmed to them. My first encounter with William Trevor’s writings began with Two Lives back in 2004.
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