In post-Civil War America, a freed man takes his chance to reinvent - and relocate - himself. From fugitive to journeyman, our protagonist leads us from Tennessee to Victorian England. Back ... read more
Pitches the reader from the quiet observations of a retired Irish policeman into the shadows of his past, his family and youth. About experience, memory and what we manage to live with.
The story of Thomas McNulty, who joins the US army in the 1850's, fighting in the Indian Wars and in the Civil War, and of his brother-in-arms. Poignant and atmospheric.