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Foolish Mortals
Jennifer Johnston
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Description for Foolish Mortals
Paperback. Festive family life can be a disaster.. FOOLISH MORTALS is a witty yet subtle novel from the celebrated, prize-winning Irish writer, Jennifer Johnston Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
All families are complicated, but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse.
After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident - or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, gingerly, to reenter his life. As her troubled family gather for the holidays, is it too much to hope that they begin to find peace at last? Of course it is.
With cross-dressing twins, new loves and an unpredicatably monstrous matriarch, Christmas was never going to be easy. But it proves both more disastrous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755330539
SKU
V9780755330539
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston is one of the foremost Irish writers of her, or any generation. She has 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 has ... Read more
Reviews for Foolish Mortals
'Johnston is one of the most revered Irish writers, and this, her fifteenth novel, makes us understand why. Her style is simple and colloquial...there are no literary pretensions: story and characters take priority...Foolish Mortals is essentially an uplifting read'
Time Out - Book of the Week
'A complex, wry domestic drama; a writer of the highest order'
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Time Out - Book of the Week
'A complex, wry domestic drama; a writer of the highest order'
... Read more