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This Is Not a Novel

Jennifer Johnston
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780747269465
  • Weight: 168g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jul 2003
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

'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' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
About Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston, who died in 2025, was one of the foremost Irish writers of her generation. She was awarded 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 been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, with SHADOWS ON OUR SKIN, and won the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement prize, in company with Seamus Heaney, John Banville and John McMahon

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