Orpheus Builds A Girl

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The hotly anticipated debut novel from award-winning author Heather Parry, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a truly chilling modern Gothic, based on a true story of sexual obsession and evil masquerading as love. For fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Eliza Clark, Kristen Roupenian and Julia Armfield
'I REST EASY; I COULD NOT HAVE DONE A THING MORE FOR MY BELOVED, NOR COULD I HAVE SHOWN MY LOVE IN ANY GREATER WAY'
Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his youth in Dresden, his grandmother and his medical career during WWII. But mostly, he remembers his darling Luci, the dark-haired beauty promised to him years before they met.
Though only together for a few months in her first life, Wilhelm knows their love is written in the stars. And he ensures that death is only the beginning. But through the cracks in Wilhelm's story there is another voice - that of Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. She tells instead the story of her fearless sister Luciana and the madman who robbed her from her grave.

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'A chilling exploration of power, love and grief, written with incredible precision and an almost uncanny ear for voice. Heather Parry is a major talent' - Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea

'A compelling, creepy tale - and one that raises relevant questions about who "owns" a womans body' - Independent, Book of the Month

'Heather Parry is a literary star of the future. Ive been a fan of her writing for years, and this novel is all I hoped for and more. Bold, sinister and debate-provoking' - Kirsty Logan, author of Things We Say in the Dark

'Superbly creepy from the start . . . Disturbing and compelling in equal measure' - The Big Issue

'Heather Parry is terrifyingly brilliant . . . Orpheus Builds a Girl is a sinister dark flower of a book, both intoxicating and beautiful' - Camilla Grudova, author of Children of Paradise

Author Bio

HEATHER PARRY is a Glasgow-based writer and editor, originally from South Yorkshire. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and the non-fiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism. Heather lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Ernesto and Fidel.