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Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. 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. 'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer ‘Absolutely captivating.’ Val McDermid ‘A masterpiece.’ Ali Smith
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"Winner of the 2016 Costa Novel of the Year. Two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry has delivered this unforgettable novel, chronicling a young Irish immigrant’s army years in the American Indian and Civil wars. “[Barry’s] words have a stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller.” THE BOSTON GLOBE. “Sebastian Barry’s handling of voice and cadence is masterly. His fictional universe is filled with life, quiet truth, and exquisite intimacy.” Colm Tóibín, author of the Costa Novel Award-winning Brooklyn."
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