**2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist ‘A tour de force’ Hilary Mantel‘Riveting and darkly brilliant’ Colm ToibinA ship sets sail with a killer on-board . . .1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the A
'The Abstainer is truly terrific - a can't-put-down book. It's no less than a tight 'n spare 'n suspense-filled noir novel, masterfully set in 1860s Britain and America. And like all superb historical
'Fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world' Hilary Mantel'Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid and insidiously witty.
