Redemption Falls

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Joseph O'Connor's sequel to his international bestseller, Star of the Sea. Reissued in a new series look to coincide with the publication of his new novel, Shadowplay 'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' Observer Discover the powerful sequel to international bestseller Star of the Sea 1865. The American Civil War is ending, but for Eliza Duane Mooney her journey across a devastated America has only just begun. Eliza is searching for her younger brother she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors- a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com

A superb achievement * Irish Times * The words 'A Masterpiece' are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel's subtitle * Sunday Tribune * A novel of vaulting ambition. O'Connor's finest work to date * Sunday Independent * This book consolidates and deepens O'Connor's stature as a major novelist * Irish Times * Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer -- Terry Eagleton * Guardian *