The HarpyFrom the acclaimed author of The End We Start From, The Harpy is a fierce tale of love, betrayal and revenge. Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy works from home but devotes her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with

By midnight the party will be completely out of control

With its privileged insight into the reality of armed combat

has been uprooted from her home and taken to live on a remote yet populated island

how overwhelming success can change even the best of men

aided and abetted by tender subtlety

glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith

supremely talented

in the aftermath of the First World War

The text is illustrated throughout in beautiful black and white wood-blocks by the highly acclaimed engraver

it's suddenly Anna's life that's on the line

Lucien has thought of nothing else but vengeance

Did Gencer kill his guest before committing suicide