The Everlasting

By (author) Harrow, Alix E.
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The Everlasting is the stunning dark fantasy and instant Sunday Times bestseller from Alix E. Harrow, the 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.
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**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.

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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.}

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The Everlasting belonged on last year’s best romance list . . . a truly glorious romance, cutting as a blade and aching with near-hopeless yearning
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A book so wildly original as to be unlike any other . . . Simply a masterpiece
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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
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If you’re looking for an original entry to the genre, with interesting prose and stylistic choices . . . this could be the one for you
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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
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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
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Gorgeous and quintessentially Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting is a meticulously layered time-loo