Joseph O'Connor. Redemption Falls

1865. The American Civil War is coming to an end. Eighteen years after the passenger ship Star of the Sea docked in New York with Irish people on board, the daughter of two of its passengers sets out on foot from Baton Rouge across a devastated America in search of a boy she hasn’t seen in four years, one of hundreds of thousands of children caught up in the war. This journey will affect the lives of many people: a poetess who worked as a nurse during the war, a guerrilla rebel, a woman who was formerly a slave, a cartographer in love, and a desperate revolutionary who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union army and later became the acting governor of a certain territory somewhere under the Canadian border, where nothing is as it seems. Redemption Falls is a story of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. A fascinating historical novel from the author of the world bestseller Star of the Sea.

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