The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.
Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin in 1930 and is one of our foremost Irish writers. Her fifteen novels include The Old Jest, winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Captains and the Kings, winner of the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award and the Yorkshire Post Award for Best Book of the Year and Shadows on Our Skin which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novel Fools Mortals was published in 2007. She lives in County Derry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140106985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140106987 |
| Title | The Old Jest |
| Author | Jennifer Johnston |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1988-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Prizes | Winner of Yorkshire Post Book of the Year 1979, Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1979 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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