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  • The Captains and the Kings: A Novel

  • By: Jennifer Johnston
  • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
  • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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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.
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Beautiful but bleak

A beautifully written piece. Such flawed characters at its centre. Narrated wonderfully by Mr Doyle.

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