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 summer. Her father, hoping to forget his dead wife, thinks of nothing but his trees; Miranda thinks of the future, a future which must surely include Cathal, who brings news from Dublin. Everything seems calm and serene. But then Andrew, her officer brother, comes home, bringing his eccentric, likeable friend Harry, and as the Indian summer fades, the scene is set for tragedy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747259372
• ISBN13: 9780747259374
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.6" x 5.0"

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.