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The Captains and the Kings: A Novel

By: Jennifer Johnston
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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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.

©2014 Jennifer Johnston (P)2014 Audible Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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...but very depressing in the plot development. Just not enough warmth of humanity for me.

Good character development

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