The Everlasting

The Everlasting is the stunning dark fantasy from Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, taking readers on a fantastical journey that always ends in tragedy, no matter how many times it repeats – unless its heroes can change their fate.



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 Starling House was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 18/11/2023, a Waterstones Book of the Month and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick