The Temporary Gentleman

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture.   Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons , is now available.    Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary e