The Everlasting
The Sunday Times bestselling love story that echoes through history and outlasts time
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Their story transcends time.
But can it be rewritten?
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from Alix E. Harrow, the author of Starling House, comes a time-travelling, genre-defying, utterly fantastical quest – a work of romantic fantasy unlike any other.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, then died for queen and country. Her legend lives on, but her life as it truly happened has been long forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory – failed soldier, struggling scholar – falls in love with her tale. It takes him to war, to the archives and then into the past itself.
So Una and Owen become tangled, bound to retell her story over and over, no matter what it costs. But their tale always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend, and finally engineer a new ending, they’ll have to confront its author – and change history itself.
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Praise for The Everlasting
‘An exquisite, epic romance . . . Simply superb’
– Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light
‘A book so wildly original as to be unlike any other . . . Simply a masterpiece’
– Laura Steven, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay
‘As dark and oppressive as it is utterly sublime . . . I loved every word of it’
– Olivia Atwater, author of The Witchwood Knot
‘Incandescent. The Everlasting should enshrine Alix E. Harrow as one of the finest writers of our generation’
– Cassandra Khaw, author of The Library at Hellebore
Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 3/11/2025.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Alix E. Harrow has built a devoted following reimagining familiar genres, including fantasy, witchcraft and gothic, in fresh ways, often centring women rewriting their roles in history. With The Everlasting, a wholly original, sweeping epic, she‘s delivered her most ambitious and accomplished novel yet: one that grips the head and heart in equal measure. At its core, it‘s a love story between Una Everlasting, a valiant female knight whose icon status has become a foundational myth for the kingdom of Dominion, and Owen Mallory, a tender-hearted historian flung into the past to guide her last adventure. Through rich, lyrical prose, Harrow uses her heroine‘s emotional story to dissect how human beings become legends, and why. What purpose do they serve for those who hold power, and what truths are lost in the process?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Harrow (Starling House) evokes the romance, magic, and tragedy of Arthurian legend in this breathtaking chivalric fantasy. Owen Mallory has always loved tales of Sir Una Everlasting, the mythic knight who helped Yvanne, the first queen of Dominion, gain her throne. A scholar at heart, Owen devotes himself after returning home from war to researching Una Everlasting and the history of the Middle Dominion. The Death of Una Everlasting is a book so rare that most serious scholars believe it doesn't even exist—until it shows up on Owen's desk one day, delivered with no return address. Desperate to keep the tome to himself, Owen brings it home and begins to translate it, only to have it stolen a few days later. Left in its place is a note card with an address, the search for which sends Owen back in time to the Middle Dominion, where he meets Una herself. As Owen leads Una to the grail and the events he knows will bring about her death, he finds it increasingly difficult to see her as a mythic hero, instead coming to know her as a fully rounded human. Told in alternating first and second person, Owen's and Una's timelines twine around each other as the past impacts the present impacts the past—and behind it all is a mysterious guiding hand. This impressively constructed plot keeps the pages flying on the way to a stunning finale. Harrow remains at the top of her game.
