Felicia, young and pregnant, steals away from a small Irish town to
search for her boyfriend in the industrial sprawl of the English
Midlands, where she falls in with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly
reasonable Mr. Hilditch. He is looking for a new friend to join the five
other girls of his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks
of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story more
resonant than ever with Trevor's "impeccable strength and piercing
profundity" (Washington Post Book World).