On Canaan's Side : A Novel

by Sebastian Barry

Book Overview

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End , is now available. A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish ?migr? mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee...