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Felicia's Journey

William Trevor

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Felicia’s Journey William Trevor “Felicia's Journey by William Trevor, it's a novel about the damage that other people's love projected onto people does to them. It's about a girl — a young girl who becomes pregnant — she's in Ireland — by a kind of a boyfriend that's not a real boyfriend, and he goes off back to England. So she goes there and wanders from business to business trying to find this boyfriend of hers, and nobody knows what she's talking about. And she comes into the view of this older, 50's kind of man; and he immediately starts kind of watching the girl. He befriends her slightly, but he's so calculated in how he befriends the girl that you immediately know he's done this before, just this kind of chain reaction of what people do to other people in the name of love and how their whole worlds eventually become altered and peripheral people that it affects. The ending's a big surprise, and when you think about it, it seems very fitting. It's really tragic. I mean nobody has a happy ending. It's not a long book; it — you can read it pretty quickly, but it's not an uplifting read. Out of five, I'd give it 3½ stars out of five.”