The Places You Will Go: Troubles wins Lost Man Booker Prize

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. The Guardian wrote, "The evidence of change and decay at the Majestic is no parochial phenomenon and it is ...