Narrated by Lilly Bere, ON CANAAN'S SIDE traces her life story from Dublin, which she was forced to flee at the end of the First World War, through to America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.