TY - BOOK AU - Fowler,Karen Joy TI - Booth SN - 9781788169677 AV - PS3556.O844 B66 2022 U1 - 813.6 23/eng/202203008 PY - 2022/// CY - London, UK PB - Serpent's Tail KW - Booth, John Wilkes, KW - Booth family KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Assassins KW - Presidents KW - Assassination KW - fast KW - United States KW - History KW - 1783-1865 KW - US & CAN historical fiction KW - UK & IRL historical fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - First published in the USA in 2022 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Randon House LLC N2 - Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ER -