The Good Lord Bird

‘Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America’s earliest abolitionists’

People

‘Just so brilliant’

John Green

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856.

When an argument between Henry’s master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town – along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm.

An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD