Booth Audiobook By Karen Joy Fowler cover art

Booth

 Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Booth

By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $18.15

Buy for $18.15

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

Sunday Times Book of the Month

SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER

From the million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family.

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.

Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

©2022 Karen Joy Fowler (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK Biographical Fiction Genre Fiction
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup

Critic reviews

"In its stretch and imaginative depth, Booth has an utterly seductive authority." (Guardian)
All stars
Most relevant  
She doesn’t say so in the notes, but it seems to me that Ms Fowler wasn’t interested in writing the book unless the rest of the Booth family was worth a book on their own - not just because of what their brother and son did.

They are. So much in this story seems thrillingly current - African Americans fight for rights, and are killed. Those who join that fight are despised, shot. And so it goes.

Fascinating

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.