Faded lives and the quiet decline of the big house
Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston. Headline Review, €18.90.
Shadowstory
By Jennifer Johnston
Headline Review, €18.90
Though Jennifer Johnston has written about contemporary Ireland, the fading of the big house continues to define her work. Set against the backdrop of a Co Clare estate - home to a once large, once prosperous Protestant family - Shadowstory revisits her favourite fictional theme and, like her early and best-known novels, How Many ...