Jennifer Johnston
Irish novelist whose slim, elegant novels explore Anglo-Irish decline and Protestant identity with quiet precision. How Many Miles to Babylon? is her most celebrated work. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Works
- How Many Miles to BabylonNovel of Irish aristocrats during World War I, friendship, and tragic loss
- The Captains and the KingsNovel exploring an Irish family's decay across generations in their ancestral estate
- The Gates
- Shadows on Our SkinNovel set during the Troubles following a boy and his mother in Belfast
- The Christmas TreeNovel set during World War II exploring family trauma and memory
- How Many Miles to Babylon?Coming-of-age novel following two Irish boys on the eve of World War I
- The Old JestNovel of love and revolution in eighteenth-century Ireland