**From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.**​

**From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.**​

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of* Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray * offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.