On Canaan's side - Sebastian Barry

'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.'

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side
opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes
back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of the
First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of
America, a world filled with both hope and danger.

At once epic
and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of
the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she
has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory,
war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's
exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.