A01=Jennifer Johnston
Author_Jennifer Johnston
Category=FBA
coming-of-age
Dublin
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family
Great War
Ireland
secrets
summer
tragedy
Troubles
young love
Product details
- ISBN 9780747259374
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jan 1999
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Great War is over; but the war in Ireland is only just beginning, as the IRA and the Black and Tans move on to the attack. It all seems very remote to Miranda Martin, during that miraculous Indian summer. Her father, hoping to forget his dead wife, thinks of nothing but his trees; Miranda thinks of the future, a future which must surely include Cathal, who brings news from Dublin. Everything seems calm and serene.
But then Andrew, her officer brother, comes home, bringing his eccentric, likeable friend Harry, and as the Indian summer fades, the scene is set for tragedy.
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.
