On Canaan’s Side
Author: Sebastian Barry
From the Man Booker short-listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of twentieth-century America.Sebastian Barry returns with the extraordinary story of Lilly Bere, the youngest daughter of the Dunne family. Forced to flee Ireland with her fiancé as a teenager under threat of death from the IRA, Lilly discovers herself in America….Read More
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