Il viaggio di Felicia

Not your usual Trevor. A bit of a mystery and almost noir. A young woman in Ireland takes the ferry to England searching for the father of her unborn baby. He may (or may not) be “working in a lawnmower factory” in the Midlands as he said. Or, as is rumored, he may be in the British army, a travesty Leggi tutto

The lower your self-esteem the more prone you are to believing the lies you tell yourself, the more prone you are to ignoring factual realities. Sometimes these lies become the guiding principle, in lieu of mounting contrary evidence, of how you see yourself and what you do. This is my second Trevor Leggi tutto

Her mourning is to wonder. [2.5] The storyline immediately catches the eye: a teenage Irish girl abandons her family, leaves her hometown, and crosses over to England to find the elusive lover who impregnated her during a brief encounter they had had at home. In England, without knowing the whereabout Leggi tutto

Deliberate, precise, and suffused with dread, this novel explores the lies we all tell ourselves and each other, and how much we're willing to do in the name of our shabby little fantasies.

Felicia è tutto, tranne quello che il suo nome dovrebbe evocare. Da quando entra in queste pagine la vediamo muoversi in una palude di tristezza: due sporte verdi, un piccolo gruzzolo rubato alla bisnonna centenaria e nient’altro. Così Felicia una mattina sale sull’autobus e lascia il villaggio in cu Leggi tutto