An assured, ambitious tale
Tennyson Bouguereau, a “devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man”, is our guide both to his own life and the changing nature of the US.
“I AM TRYING to inch closer to a new book, I sense it pecking away at the ground nearby, and I am trying not to scare it out of the garden.” So said Sebastian Barry when, having been nominated for a fifth time for the Booker Prize with Old God’s Time (2023), he was asked what was next.
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