Astray

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. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.

With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316206297

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2012 pg. 54
Library Journal 06/15/2012 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 06/11/2012 pg. 26
Booklist 09/15/2012 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2012
Quill & Quire 11/01/2012 pg. 23
People Weekly 11/05/2012 pg. 52
Entertainment Weekly 11/02/2012 pg. 75
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2012 pg. 15
New York Review of Books 11/22/2012 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 11/06/2012
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2012 pg. 48
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2013 pg. 8
BookPage 11/01/2012

About the Author
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories.

She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.