Astraea

'A novella of clarity and strange grace, etched with a fierce and patient skill.' -- Sebastian Barry. It's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony. Among those trying to survive is a 15-year-old girl. After caring for her only friend who has poisoned herself, she discovers a kind of liberation within the confines of the ship, as she moves into her unknowable, distant future. Ali Smith says: ' This powerful... Zobrazit více