Jennifer Johnston

This Is Not a Novel (eBook, ePUB)

A poignant story of Ireland, love and loss and the Great War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'With masterful control, Johnston excavates a well of memory and hurt, quietly demonstrating the damage that can be done by families' The Times A beautifully crafted Irish novel of loss and yearning... Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty years ago: drowned, or so everyone except his sister Imogen believes. How could this have happened? Encouraged and pushed as a child by his father, Johnny could have made the Olympic team, couldn't he? As Imogen gradually pieces together bits of her family history, we hear the tragic echoes that connect her with the Great War and Ireland in the nineteen-twenties. 'Subtle, moving and beautifully constructed' The Sunday Times What readers say about THIS IS NOT A NOVEL: 'A beautiful novel' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This is a story told in layers. Like so many other Irish writers the distinctiveness of the place of their birth is never far from the surface' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472226020
• Artikelnr.: 41866952

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Johnston is a preeminent voice of contemporary Irish fiction. Her long list of accolades includes the Whitbread Literary Award for The Old Jest, the Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel for The Captains and the Kings, and a Man Booker Prize shortlist mention for Shadows on Our Skin. Her recent Foolish Mortals was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Decade by the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Johnston has authored seventeen novels and five plays. She lives outside Derry, Northern Ireland.