This Is Not a Novel (Paperback)

Jennifer Johnston (author)

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Paperback 224 Pages
Published: 07/07/2003

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Synopsis

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, pushed even, from 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.

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780747269465
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 168 g
Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 15 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

The quiet, elegiac prose is well sustained - Guardian

Characters damaged by their upbringing are Jennifer Johnston's metier, and echoes are a favourite motif. In what is, despite its title, a very fine novel, the tragedies of her family's past recur as Imogen's words resound off the coastal bay. A taut narrative, pared prose and lyrical imagery add up to a sad affirmation of Philip Larkin's adage - Saturday Telegraph

Characteristically wry [and] intelligent - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times