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How Many Miles to Babylon?

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141909431

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

How Many Miles to Babylon?

As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both enlisted in the British Army – Alec goaded by his beautiful, cold mother to fight for King and Country, Jerry to learn his trade for the Irish Nationalist cause. But amid the mud of Flanders, their relationship is tested by an ordeal beyond the horror of the battlefield…

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141909431

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

About the Author

Jennifer Johnston

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.

Jennifer Johnston

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