Stella Maris

'A drought-busting brain-vexing double act’ - GuardianAlicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago. And a paranoid schizophrenic who does not want to talk about her brother Bobby.Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris is a profoundly moving companion to The Passenger. It is a powerful enquiry that questions our notions of God truth and life itself.‘Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso his language was so rich and new . . . his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.’ - Anne Enright