Junius is a famous and charismatic English actor, and self-styled rival to Edmund Kean who thrills America with his renditions of Shakespeare, when he isn’t drunk and sinking the family ever further into debt. When I began reading the book I wondered if it was her Wolf Hall, and by the end I knew that it was.’īooth is the magisterial, vivid and tragic story of a family who changed the course of American history. This is a deep dive into history that shows how Britain and the US have intertwined stories, and how the past casts long shadows into the present.
The characters feel alive on the page, the setting is beautifully done, and once again Karen finds a voice that rises off the page. It takes a story we think we know and turns it inside out, creating a novel that is historically and politically serious, and an absolute pleasure to read, too. This is an utterly different book to We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, but it’s just as imaginative, thought-provoking and resonant.
Plus lots of Shakespeare.’Ĭommissioning editor Rebecca Gray said, ‘How do you follow up the book of a lifetime? For Karen, the answer is by writing another masterpiece.
But those long ago issues remain relevant and the Booths proved a particularly useful lens through which to tell a story about family, fame, and the Civil War. They’ve been very patient as this book was a long time coming - current events continually drawing my attention away from historical ones. Karen Joy Fowler said, ‘I’m thrilled to be working again with the wonderful team at Serpent’s Tail. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Karen Joy Fowler’s 2014 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has sold 900,000 copies in the UK across all formats and was one of the bestselling novels of 2014. We are completely beside ourselves to be publishing Booth, Karen Joy Fowler’s first novel since the international phenomenon We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves!
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