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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022
In its stretch and imaginative depth Booth has an utterly seductive authority
Guardian
Sunday Times Book of the Month
SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER
From the millioncopy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous illfated Booth family
Junius is the patriarch a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war
Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood each has their own dreams they must fight to realise but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind and break a family
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