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The Illusionist

The Illusionist

by JenniferJohnston (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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    Hardcover 1995

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Synopsis

When Stella first meets Martyn, he's just a stranger on a train. She knows nothing at all about him. But very quickly she is won over by his charm and breathtaking illusions, and when he asks her to marry him, she agrees. However, as they begin their life together, Stella starts to feel uneasy. What exactly is the show-stopping illusion he claims to be working on, locked away in that room? Who are those men that visit the house at strange hours? And why are her questions never answered? As Stella realises that she barely knows the man she married, her thoughts turn to escape.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 08 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0755334787
ISBN 13: 9780755334780
Book Overview: 'One of our most impressive novelists' Sunday Express

Media Reviews
An immaculate artist: understated, unshowy, a careful and economical craftswoman of language and all the loose, unwieldy stuff of emotion * Scotsman *
Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad * The Sunday Times *
An elegant, elegiac exploration of love, loss, memory and longing * Independent on Sunday *
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.