Astray

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Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghues latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants runaways drifters. They cross other borders too: those of race law sex & sanity. They travel for love or money incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his masters wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon even in the supposedly plentiful early days & she takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. Astray also

Includes:: The Hunt a shocking confession of one soldiers violent betrayal during the American Revolution which has been shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award. Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize-winning author of Room & The Sealed Letter. These strange true tales light up four centuries of wanderings offering a past made up of deviations & a surprising & moving history for restless times.