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THE BOOK: A woman of fifty-eight, meets an illusionist - the Illusionist - on a train. At first, life is blissfully sweet, but when her first novel turns brings overnight fame, the women's life changes out of all recognition.
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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)
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Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad (The Sunday Times)
An elegant, elegiac exploration of love, loss, memory and longing (Independent on Sunday)
SALES POINTS: * The work of a major novelist writing at the height of her powers. * 'An utterly spellbinding story. . . seimic, implosive and altogether consummately achieved' - Scotland on Sunday. * 'Examines in merciless detail the complexities of human nature and the vagaries of the heart. It is a novel which you are unlikey to forget' - Scotsman. * Johnston's first book for Minerva. * Huge audience for this major Irish writer.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0749395826
- ISBN 13 9780749395827
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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