![]() ![]() The provincial realism which is Trevor's speciality founders, as Felicia does, among the brand names and post-industrial landscapes of the English Midlands. Whereas in his best work, The News from Ireland or The Silence in the Garden, the core of private grief has other, deeper cultural resonances, there's something constricted about this almost surgical exercise in pathology. The book is written with Trevor's usual narrative grip and commitment to the small print of ordinary lives ('the dull flow of time'), but for all its residual lyricism, it leaves a sour taste. 17-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and. ![]() ![]() The obscenity of unspoken, unacknowledged violence reverberates throughout. Editions for Felicias Journey: (Paperback published in 1996), 0140240241 (Paperback published in 1998), 0670857459 (Hardcover published in 1995), 014029. Hilditch is 'mistily aware that something may be missing', that is all. Item 149838 ISBN: 0670857459 Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ![]() We get detailed supermarket shopping lists and menus, but at no point does the book describe anything approaching a violent act. If it horrifies, it is because the violence of Hilditch the serial killer is so completely swallowed up in the blandness of Hilditch the serial consumer. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. But Trevor's portrait avoids obvious sensationalism. ![]()
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