How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston - ISBN: 9780141046969
Paperback
Friendship tested by war’s brutal choices; loyalty shattered.

How Many Miles to Babylon?

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    3 February 2010

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Summary

For lovers of Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, the reissue of a stunning WWI novel on the author’s 80th birthday.

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 fi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141046969
ISBN-10:0141046961
Author:Jennifer Johnston
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:3 February 2010
Weight:121g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 11mm
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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