Annal:1994 Whitbread Book Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 Whitbread-Novel winner
- 1995 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 16.44
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).
