Fool's Sanctuary

By Jennifer Johnston

Book Overview

The Great War is over; but the war in Ireland is only just beginning, as the IRA and the Black and Tans move on to the attack. It all seems very remote to Miranda Martin, during that miraculous Indian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067081783X
• ISBN13: 9780670817832
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a haunting novel of love and loss

Jennifer Johnston reminds us of the waste and regret that comes from love in inopportune times, in places where greater forces of emotion and hate are at play. Ireland after 1916 was a place of reawakened pride and passion. Those who existed in the previous order saw little place for themselves in the country about to be born. Johnston captures that sense of opportunity lost, for Miranda and, indeed, for the whole country. Living in South Africa today, it seems so familiar. A beautifully written book.