by J. G. Farrell
Published by Orion Publishing Group
Forty years after it was first published, Troubles, by J.G. Farrell, handily won the Lost Man Booker Prize, taking 38% of the public votes and more than twice as many as any other shortilsted title!
Set in Ireland in 1919, just after the First World War, Troubles tells the tragic-comic story of Major Brendan Archer who has gone to visit Angela, a woman he believes may be his fiancée. Her home, from which he is unable to detach himself, is the dilapidated Majestic, a once grand Irish hotel, and all around is the gathering storm of the Irish War of Independence.