Description

**WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2026**

‘A wildly inventive, truly magical tour de force’ – Ava Reid, bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

An instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Everlasting is a time-travelling, genre-defying, utterly fantasical quest of love and endurance. Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House, delivers 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.

Una and Owen become tangled, bound to retell her story over and over, no matter what it costs. But it 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.

* * *

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.

Publisher Review

The Everlasting belonged on last year's best romance list . . . a truly glorious romance, cutting as a blade and aching with near-hopeless yearning * The New York Times * A book so wildly original as to be unlike any other . . . Simply a masterpiece -- Laura Steven, New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates Opening this book is like being handed a sharp, sexy onion: each layer of narrative that unwraps is more devastating than the last, and by the time you reach its tender heart, you're probably crying. Alix E. Harrow has created an exquisite, epic romance that also takes you by the throat and forces you to consider the terrible costs of history, loyalty and legend-making -- Freya Marske, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Marvellous Light If you're looking for an original entry to the genre, with interesting prose and stylistic choices . . . this could be the one for you * The Times * As dark and oppressive as it is utterly sublime, The Everlasting is a lush fantasy that also holds up a mythological mirror to our present-day neuroses, honing its edge on our need for identity and belonging. It's also got a buff lady knight and a cowardly scholar who worships the ground she walks on. Anyway, I loved every word of it -- Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul Incandescent. The Everlasting should enshrine Alix E. Harrow as one of the finest writers of our generation and if it doesn't, there's something seriously wrong with the world -- Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth Gorgeous and quintessentially Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting is a meticulously layered time-loop story with devastating emotional impact that grapples with the toll of loyalty and duty, the weaponization of myth and the true cost of nation and empire. A highly anticipated and deeply moving epic -- KelleyAnn Thai, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a vivid and eerie setting - plus, characters willing to risk everything -- Reese Witherspoon on Starling House, Reese's Book Club October 2023 Pick The gaudy, dark seam between horror and romance, Starling House is Alix E. Harrow's greatest work yet - if you can survive its slow belly-crawl into hell -- Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Lady MacBeth on Starling House Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent . . . pure loveliness in book form -- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six on Starling House Gorgeous, poignant and honest - an unforgettable read -- Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter on Starling House Harrow evokes the romance, magic, and tragedy of Arthurian legend in this breathtaking chivalric fantasy . . . keeps the pages flying on the way to a stunning finale. Harrow remains at the top of her game * Publishers Weekly * What Harrow has crafted here is tender and aching and brutal in equal measure. Sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable, and always deeply moving . . . I loved this -- V. L. Bovalino, author of The Second Death of Locke