Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston

Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston

Sally, an actress, has just returned from a long European tour to her house in Goatstown, and looks forward eagerly to seeing her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's leaving her, Sally, devastated and furious, makes him pack his bags at once. But maybe, she wonders later, she really is too hard to live with? Weighed down by the unspoken secrets of two generations, and hoping for some glimmer of comfort, Sally turns to her grandfather, the frosty old Bishop she has never really known.

'Johnston has written a powerful bookShe sensitively examines those themes - of paternity, of reality - that have always been the domain of literature... [Her] literary references never complicate her writing, but illuminate it, creating a rich and perceptive blend of poetry and experience' TLS 04/05/2005 - Times Literary Supplement

,A deceptively simple piece. It is only when you put the book down that you realise how much ground Jennifer Johnston has covered: taking the reader, in a spirit of compassion, towards the very heart of darkness, Sunday Telegraph 20/03/05 - Sunday Telegraph

'Grace and Truth, with its emphasis on the dangerous edge of things (the non-believing bishop, the faithful philanderer), makes a powerful contribution to the literature of the illicit, handling the pungent central issue with sympathy and decorum. Spot-on social observations, which we expect from this author, keep an everyday irony well to the fore. At another level, the novel shows a humane spirit triumphant in the face of the vagaries of humane nature' Independent 25/03/05 - Independent

'This is a carefully crafted story... the structure is masterly, and the writing pungent' Penelope Lively, The Sunday Times 20/03/05 - The Sunday Times (Penelope Lively)

'Johnston was courageous in choosing the glitzy world of the luvvies as her standpoint for such a dark-centred tale, and it works

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 also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Shadows On Our Skin.

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ISBN 13	9780747267515
ISBN 10	0747267510
Title	Grace and Truth
Author	Jennifer Johnston
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2005-03-07
Number of pages	224
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