Days Without End

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MATILDA BOOKSHOP REVIEW

Days Without End traces the journey of two lost souls as they travel across America in the 19th century. Along the way they find love, violence, and, most importantly, each other. This is an astounding novel, the writing is frequently breathtaking and the story compelling. One of the best books I’ve read in ages. - Gavin

Description

Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author

Costa Award Winner

Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

Awards

WINNER 2016 Costa Fiction Award Longlisted for Man Booker Prize 2017

Author description

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.