The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue\'s stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new.
With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum.
They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.
They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity.
They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves.
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue\'s stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new