Astray the wild robot known as Mary Smith

known as Mary Smith

Everything in Bea's world has changed

roots and horizons

and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of The Fortune Rock's Quartet

a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award

Astray the wild robot known as Mary SmithFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money,