“In those days the Majestic was still standing in Kilnalough at the very end of a slim peninsula covered with dead pines leaning here and there at odd angles.” This 1970 novel won the “Lost” Booker prize where books from that year were ineligible for rules reasons. And so this won against Shirley Hazzard’s The Bay at Noon, Nina Bawden’s The Birds on the Trees, Mary Renault’s Fire from Heaven, Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, and Patrick White’s The Vivisector, a tough crowd to win […]