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Author_Jennifer Johnston
bestselling fiction
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family
female identity
identity
Ireland
Irish fiction
Irish literary fiction
literary fiction
looking back
memories
mother and daughter relationships
motherhood
moving
Ordinary People
past relationships
prize-winning fiction
Sally Rooney
Sebastian Barry
secrets
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Product details
- ISBN 9780747259329
- Weight: 174g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 1999
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When a daughter returns, the past is revisited...
In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend.
Over the next few days, events lead them to reassess the shape of their lives. For while Grace's visitors focus her attention on an uncertain future, Mimi, who receives a messenger of a very different kind, must begin to set herself to rights with the betrayals and disappointments of the past.
'Superbly executed... by turns funny, revealing and sad, the novel is both enchanted and enchanting' Daily Telegraph
Jennifer Johnston, who died in 2025, was one of the foremost Irish writers of her generation. She won the Whitbread Prize for 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.
