{"product_id":"9781447209508-astray","title":"Astray","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of fact-inspired short stories, from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis fascinating, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efact-inspired fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecollection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free, and takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. \u003ci\u003eAstray\u003c\/i\u003e also includes 'The Hunt', a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which was shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Short Story Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past in scattered pieces, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451485827446,"sku":"9781447209508","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27128718.jpg?v=1760462718","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447209508-astray","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}