How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston - ISBN: 9780241978979
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Friendship forged in peace, tested by war, broken by a choice.

How Many Miles to Babylon?

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2016

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Summary

The stunning WWI novel, available for the first time as a Penguin Essential

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241978979
ISBN-10:0241978971
Author:Jennifer Johnston
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:1 October 2016
Weight:92g
Dimensions:181mm x 111mm x 9mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
About The Author

Jennifer Johnston

Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin in 1930 and is one of our foremost Irish writers. Her fifteen novels include The Old Jest, winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Captains and the Kings, winner of the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award and the Yorkshire Post Award for Best Book of the Year, and Shadows on Our Skin which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novel Fools Mortals was published in 2007. She lives in County Derry.

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