Astray

The bestselling author of Room fashions a cast of colourful characters-who inhabit worlds as diverse as Puritan Massachusetts and 1960s Toronto-each on their own extraordinary journey

Gold miner. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers oldand new. They cross other borders, too-those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from Puritan Massachusetts to the Yukon gold rush, from antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway. Astray offers us a surprising and movinghistory for restless times.

"Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. Her imagination is kaleidoscopic. She steps borders and boundaries with great ease and style. In her hands the centuries dissolve, and then they crystallize back again into powerful wordson the page." -COLUM McCANN

"Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen, and Astray is no exception." -ANN PATCHETT

EMMA DONOGHUE, born in Dublin in 1969, is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose seven novels include the internationally bestsellingRoom-winner of both the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and Caribbean region) and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize-as well asSlammerkin,Life MaskandThe Sealed Letter. She lives in London, Ontario, with her partner and their two children.

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