Orpheus Builds a Girl

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

About the author

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. Her second novel, Carrion Crow, will be published by Doubleday.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Heather Parry
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9781805337966
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-796-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Satire, Horror & ghost stories, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction