© Academia
For this her first novel, Johnston won the Yorkshire Post Book Award and the Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel. In it, she charts the decline of the Big House and the Ascendencay represented by aged Mr Prendergast who remembers his loveless marriage, his ghost of a father, and, with bitterness, his bejewelled mother, who lavished love on his brother. Then young Diarmid arrives, offering him gifts of curiosity, innocence and friendship.
Hamilton 1972
Translated into: Czech
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