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Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Sunday Express Book of the Year Award ‘You’re beautiful,’ Johnny told her and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls… ‘Immensely readable. The plot twist is both sinister and affecting, and so skilfully done that you remember why authors had plot twists in the first place’ Philip Hensher, Guardian ‘Immaculately calculated. Trevor’s cunning is to lull us with inertia so that we are as startled as his characters when the fain air of menace turns into a tempest’ Sunday Tribune ‘Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling. This sinister, elegant, piercingly sad novel is surely one of the books of the year’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Express ‘A masterpiece. You read and are dazzled. It has one of the most memorable and convincing, most sinister and terrifying of characters created in the modern novel’ Susan Hill ‘Masterly in its tension’ Irish Times Softcover, 213 pages. In very good pre-loved condition with the exception of a blacked out name and date on the first page.