Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about – the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today.

Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win.

A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom. Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won’t discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape.

One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery…

‘A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist’ Diana Evans ‘I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Toni Morrison