The Gates

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Once, the villagers would tip their hats repectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. Now, when the estate is in a state of peaceful decay, Minnie returns home, disrupting the tranquillity.

Reviews

Wonderful...funny and sad * Daily Express *
Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad... a very good writer * The Sunday Times *
An honest and shrewd writer...funny too * Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

Jennifer Johnston is one of the foremost Irish writers of her, or any, generation. She has won the Whitbread Prize (THE OLD JEST), the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award (for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS), the Yorkshire Post Award, Best Book of the Year (twice, for THE CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS and HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON). She was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize with SHADOWS ON OUR SKIN.