This is Not a Novel by Jennifer Johnston

This is Not a Novel by Jennifer Johnston

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. A compelling, multi-faceted gem of a novel from one of our finest authors.

Like Jennifer Johnston's previous distinguished fiction, THIS IS NOT A NOVEL packs a whole world and its history into a few spare pages.. subtle, moving and beautifully constructed - Peter Parker, The Sunday Times

An elegant, elegiac exploration of love, loss, memory, and longing... There is no more careful, sensitive, powerful storyteller helping us to [look freshly at the past] than Jennifer Johnston - Cole Morton, Independent on Sunday

Of course it is a novel and a very good, beautifully structured one... The skill with which Johnston moves through the decades... and... alternates points of view is remarkable... The characterisation is deft and convincing. - Allan Massie, Scotsman

An enthralling book, about abandonment and yearning. Elegantly and sparely written, it resonates with the plangent echoes of past betrayals, guilt and madness - Glasgow Herald

A fine drama of family relations, chiselled from the bedrock of 20th-century Irish history and touched with ... eloquence... the elegant treatment of theme is what Johnston's readers will appreciate - Irish Times

Elegantly crafted and written with the economy and clarity of one long practised in her art - Sunday Telegraph

The ingenious working of the material and its moving nature will... delight Johnston's admirers... New readers may well return for more - TLS

For the first time in my life I can honest

Jennifer Johnston started to write at the age of 35, and was instantly recognised as a remarkable talent. 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	9780747269458
ISBN 10	0747269459
Title	This is Not a Novel
Author	Jennifer Johnston
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2002-11-04
Number of pages	224
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