Redemption Falls

Joseph O'Connor

RRP: £17.99

Publisher: HARVILL SECKER

Publication Date : 03/05/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Following the success of "Star Of The Sea", O'Connor's new novel follows the daughter of two of the passengers who disembarked from that ill-starred ship. It is 1865 and the American Civil War is ending. Eliza Duane Mooney sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana on a walk across a devastated country in this powerful historical novel which has great contemporary resonance.

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Publisher's description:

The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary.

ISBN: 9780436205699