Troubles by J G Farrell – The “Lost” Man Booker Prize Winner 1970

WINNER 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 fiancee is strangely altered, and her family’s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel’s hundreds of rooms are disintegrating; its few remaining guests thrive on rumours and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar; … read more