Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life in the American South. Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer and hired as a farm-hand. But Pip is black. The farmer and his wife are white. This is 1960s America, where race overshadows everything. As tensions rise, Jack and Pip's lives become inextricably linked, in this powerful story of race and friendship. WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2017Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South.
