Sebastian Barry – A Thousand Moons
From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End comes Sebastian Barry’s latest novel A Thousand Moons. Set in 1870s Tennessee, orphan Winona is adopted by farmers Thomas and John where she is educated, loved and forms a life for herself beyond her tumultuous past. In the aftermath of the Civil War though, her family unit becomes fragile and Winona is faced with an event she struggles to understand let alone understand.