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A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history foreverJunius 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 siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.“This is historical fiction at its finest, and an interesting spin on an infamous historical event. The result is an intimate family drama that inevitably ends in tragedy. Karen Joy Fowler takes the polish off historical events and presents them in a more familiar context. The novel interweaves Abraham Lincoln’s rise to the Presidency against the backdrop of the Booth’s lives. This is the first MUST read of 2022!” Jon, General Manager Dymocks Sydney"Booth is a triumph! No one writes like Karen Joy Fowler. With wit, heart, and revelatory insight, she teases ghosts from their shadows, transforming the way we see the past, shedding new light on our troubled present." Ruth Ozeki