Proof copy. 8vo. 307pp. Pictorial wraps. In publisher's illustrated card box, complete with U.S. flag and a card listing ten reasons as to why "this book should be the next one you read".
As New.
Author's fourth novel. Winner of the 2002 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize [since renamed the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize]. Falsely imprisoned as a confederate spy during the Civil War, 18-year old Adair Colley falls for her Union interrogator, who helps her to escape and embark on the perilous journey home.
Past winner of the Governor General's Award for English Poetry for her 1984 collection, Celestial Navigation, and a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction for News of the World. "A book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence." –The New York Times