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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022A TELEGRAPH BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AN EVENING STADARD MUST-READ NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022ONE OF NICOLA STURGEON''S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022''Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying'' Cathy Rentzenbrink''Effortlessly resonant ... breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters'' Daily TelegraphFrom the million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER.Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth si