Jennifer Johnston

The Gingerbread Woman (eBook, ePUB)

An exquisite novel of loneliness, friendship and hope

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A beautifully paced novel of solitude, healing and hope...

On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man out walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their first chance encounter develops a remarkable friendship which will enable each to face afresh their very different, damaged pasts, and to look, however tentatively, towards the future.

'Despite its desolate background it is both entertaining and uplifting... The book has a musical feel and makes a poignant symphony of its themes of love and grief' Sunday Express

'The Gingerbread Woman is Johnston at her observant, compelling best' Image magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472225962
• Artikelnr.: 41838147

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Johnston, who died in 2025, was one of the foremost Irish writers of her generation. She won the Whitbread Prize (THE OLD JEST), the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award (for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS), the Yorkshire Post Award, Best Book of the Year (twice, for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS and HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?). She was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize with SHADOWS ON OUR SKIN.

Rezensionen

She writes with considerable acuity and understanding Sunday Times