Susanna Johnston

• Jan-1998
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• Jan-1998
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A collection of brief literary selections about parties includes the writing of Truman Capote, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, Daphne DuMaurier, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald...

• Apr-2007
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A roaring romp through the idiosyncratic nature of British country life, this novel-populated with a cast of eccentrics in the traditional British mold-follows the fish-out-of-water story of Muriel, a 50-something woman jaded by city life, who inheri...

• Jun-2010
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This deliciously dark comedy about low morals in high places finds Muriel a fish out of water among the British upper crust. Muriel inhabits Manor House, a country estate she inherited from a distant relative, with a motley crew of family, staff, and...

• Jul-2013
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• Jul-2013
• / Mystery
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Set about twenty years ago, Johnston's latest novel is a comic romp about a mid-fifty year old woman who, having been rather lost in her London life, suddenly, out of the blue, inherits a marvellous Elizabethan manor house in Lincolnshire from a luna...

• Jun-2014
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This mischievous roman à clef revolves around the interactions of five main characters. Victoria, barely twenty, finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind, who lives in a ravishing house by the sea in north...

• Jan-2016
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'Open with caution, funny and deeply disturbing.' The Oldie.
'Wicked, great comic characters.' Anne Robinson.
'Seductive.' Lisa Segrave.
This mischievous novel set in Lucca centres around an unexpectedly passion...