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The Illusionist
Jennifer Johnston
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Description for The Illusionist
Paperback. 'One of our most impressive novelists' Sunday Express Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 200.
When Stella first meets Martyn, he's just a stranger on a train. She knows nothing at all about him. But very quickly she is won over by his charm and breathtaking illusions, and when he asks her to marry him, she agrees.
However, as they begin their life together, Stella starts to feel uneasy. What exactly is the show-stopping illusion he claims to be working on, locked away in that room? Who are those men that visit the house at strange hours? And why are her questions never answered? As Stella realises that she barely knows the man ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755334780
SKU
V9780755334780
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
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?). ... Read more
Reviews for The Illusionist
An immaculate artist: understated, unshowy, a careful and economical craftswoman of language and all the loose, unwieldy stuff of emotion
Scotsman
Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad
The Sunday Times
An elegant, elegiac exploration of love, loss, memory and longing
Independent on Sunday
Scotsman
Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad
The Sunday Times
An elegant, elegiac exploration of love, loss, memory and longing
Independent on Sunday