Book description
In the bitter winter of 1847,
The
Star of the Sea
sets sail from Ireland for New York. Amongst the passengers are a
maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his
family, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads. All
in search of a new home in the Promised land, each is yet connected more
deeply than they can possibly know... and a camouflaged killer is
stalking the decks, hungry for vengeance and absolution.
Joseph
O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys and
Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea
(Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix
Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year),
Redemption Falls, and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One
Book Novel, 2011). In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Literature. His work has been published in
thirty-five languages.
www. josephoconnorauthor. com
