Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston and How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston (Two Books) (GT673)

Published 1983 + 2010: Softcover's / Very Good Condition / Two Books

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Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston
A brilliant story of the secrets we keep.

When journalist Caroline Wallace is asked to go to Dublin to meet Desmond Fitzmaurice, a literary giant of the thirties, she finds it hard to care about a writer whose star faded a very long time ago. And, although interviewing Desmond seems like a timely escape from the pressures of London, not to mention a startling marriage proposal, it's hard to believe this charming old man's past contains 'lots of sex and some violence' as he promises.

Desmond Fitzmaurice is famous, ancient and mysterious: a literary giant of the thirties whom no one has seen for years. And Caroline, a London journalist, hasn't the faintest interest in going to Dublin to interview him; what are the chances, after all, that his life story will feature 'lots of sex and some violence', as the old man claims? She'll stay for a couple of nights, extract what she can and try to make his life sound interesting, if at all possible. But in Desmond's quiet house, his quiet life, Caroline finds much, much more than she bargained for. [Google Books]


How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them.

When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and enlisted man.

And it is there, surrounded by mud and chaos and death, that one of them makes a fateful decision whose consequences will test their friendship and loyalty to breaking point. [Google Books]