Troubles by J.G. Farrell #foliosociety candlelight flickers over crisp white

candlelight flickers over crisp white tablecloths

Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781035012282Extent: 480 pages

Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii

We are surrounded by ghosts

12 novels and Volume XIII is Life of Dickens by F

Troubles by J.G. Farrell #foliosociety candlelight flickers over crisp whiteWINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE 'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.' 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiance is strangely altered, and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds