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Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his icily glamorous mother and Alexander, the son she so jealously loved, killed in the First World War.
With only his ill-tempered alcoholic gardener left to attend to him, Mr Prendergast is content to pass his days in such ghostly company. Until young Diarmid arrives, keen-eyed and carrot-haired, to disperse the gathering darkness with curiosity, and the promise of friendship.



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TheCaptains and the Kings by Johnston Jennifer

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      Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/01/1999
      ISBN13: 9780747259343, 978-0747259343
      ISBN10: 747259348
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his icily glamorous mother and Alexander, the son she so jealously loved, killed in the First World War.
      With only his ill-tempered alcoholic gardener left to attend to him, Mr Prendergast is content to pass his days in such ghostly company. Until young Diarmid arrives, keen-eyed and carrot-haired, to disperse the gathering darkness with curiosity, and the promise of friendship.



      Trade Review
      Jennifer Johnston has written a beauty...full of sharp truth * Daily Telegraph *
      Elegantly written... it is a tragic story with a merciful ending... Jennifer Johnston knows her Ireland as well as she knows human nature * Irish Times *
      I greatly enjoyed and admired The Captains and the Kings -- Kingsley Amis * Observer *
      Assured and skillful * The Sunday Times *
      Formidably well done * Guardian *

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