From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

Shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize


‘A marvellously engrossing journey, studded with ideas and lyrical treats’ The Times

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In 1919, pioneering journalist Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a Black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.

Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.

‘History comes vividly to life in a majestic work’ Sunday Times

‘Beautifully hypnotic ... Those who can’t see the point of historical novels will find their answer here’ Emma Donoghue

‘Expertly constructed ... The prose is poetically vivid’ Observer

"It is, simply, perfect" - Irish Examiner

"Majestic" - Sunday Times

"Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time ... A novel of true resonance and power" - Independent

"His vivid, reactive and heartfelt fiction lives and breathes, sighs and weeps" - Irish Times

"A very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist" - Guardian

"Beautifully poignant" - Mail on Sunday

"McCann is no stranger to literary prizes — but if I were him, I’d start clearing my mantelpiece for a few more" - Daily Mail