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Jennifer Johnston has written a beauty...full of sharp truth (Daily Telegraph)
Elegantly written... it is a tragic story with a merciful ending... Jennifer Johnston knows her Ireland as well as she knows human nature (Irish Times)
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Elegantly written... it is a tragic story with a merciful ending... Jennifer Johnston knows her Ireland as well as she knows human nature (Irish Times)
I greatly enjoyed and admired The Captains and the Kings (Kingsley Amis Observer)
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A heartbreakingly brilliant novel by one of Ireland's greatest living writers
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0241021146
- ISBN 13 9780241021149
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages142
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