Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in the neglected railway station house nearby. Mutilated and sick at heart, with the help of a young lad he has begun painstakingly to restore the derelict branch line station. Soon Roger and Helen form a bond which, over gramophone music, dancing and champagne, deepens into love. But Helen, enjoying her first taste of happiness in years, is to learn just how brutally fleeting it can be.
The Railway Station Man A Novel Jennifer Johnston Isolation. Such a grandiose word. Read books for free from anywhere and from any device.
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Never said a word nor left a message. No,’ she said hadn’t even said he was going? It could be Galway. There was an uncle in Galway he visited from time to time. Didn’t he work for the Englishman above at the station and wouldn’t he likely be back on Monday morning? ‘Yes. She’d say they’d called looking for him. That would be the sum total of the help she’d be able to give them
Jennifer Johnston is a preeminent voice of contemporary Irish fiction
Jennifer Johnston is a preeminent voice of contemporary Irish fiction. Her long list of accolades includes the Whitbread Literary Award for The Old Jest, the Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel for The Captains and the Kings, and a Man Booker Prize shortlist mention for Shadows on Our Skin. Her recent Foolish Mortals was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Decade by the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Johnston has authored seventeen novels and five plays.
The Railway Station Man book. It is in the details that Jennifer Johnston excels, the details that tell so much more because they engage the reader's imagination (something - in my opinion - the best novels always do) so that we fill in what isn't written for ourselves and understand the characters and their motives so much better, so much more vividly than if every detail was.
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August 1998 : UK Paperback.