A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Riveting' Margaret Atwood 'I loved this book intensely' Lauren Groff Guardian

The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie O'Neill and Emma Harte begins...

NEW YORK CITY, 1921

'A masterful debut' - Ellen Alpsten, author of Tsarina

A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy

'One of the greatest American novels of this or any time' Guardian

'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian