A01=Jennifer Johnston
Author_Jennifer Johnston
Category=FBA
Dublin
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friendship
heartbreak
history
Ireland
literary
love
sorrow
suffering
suicide
Product details
- ISBN 9780747259336
- Weight: 162g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their testy 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.
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.
