WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2017 Jack has left his native Ireland & is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South He has certain skills honed over his lifetime that he mostly keeps hidden Skills in hypnotism & mind control Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer hired as a farm-hand & as carer for the farmer's wife But Pip is black The farmer & his wife are white & this is 1960s America where race defines you & overshadows everything As racial tensions reach boiling point with a danger closer to home & more terrifying than either thought possible Jack & Pip's lives become inextricably linked & Jack's hypnotic skills are called on as never before