How Many Miles to Babylon? (novel) starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Alec and Christopher Fairbank as Jerry. In 2005 the actor and director Alan Stanford adapted the novel for stage and it was produced by Second Age Theatre Company and directed by David Parnell. The play has been performed several times subsequently. The book featured as the "Book at Bedtime" on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. "In the Army :" How Many Miles to Babylon? (novel) How Many Miles to Babylon? is a novel by Irish writer Jennifer Johnston, first published in 1974. The novel explores the relationship of two men, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Alexander Moore,
The Lion has Many Ears of jealousy; that Guðrún's son Svenni stole the antique pistol; that Kjartan in fact killed himself, staging his suicide as a murder (echoing how in "Laxdæla saga" Kjartan refuses to defend himself against Bolli); and that Hrefna murdered Bolli, apparently supposing that he was to blame for Kjartan's murder. In an epilogue, Guðrún bumps into Leó in the street and it becomes clear from family resemblance that her son Þorlákur is in fact not Bolli's son, but Leó's, and the two become a happy couple, echoing Guðrún Ósvifursdóttir's fourth marriage, to Þorkell Eyjólfsson, in "Laxdæla saga". The Lion has Many