Days Without End
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America.
Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.
Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.
Author bio:
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. The Secret Scripture also won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year.
He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
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