Emilia Hart’s debut novel Weyward has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Her second novel ‘The Sirens,’ due for release on 13 February, is already receiving amazing reviews.

Emilia will be in conversation with historical fiction bestselling author Jennifer Saint, writer of mythological novels Ariadne, Elektra and Hera.

Beautiful, atmospheric and thrilling, The Sirens delivers everything you'd expect from the author of Weyward and more besides. An incredibly involving combination of powerful dual-timeline storytelling, feminist themes and mythical elements.

‘Absolutely wonderful. It’s a profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery’ - ROSIE ANDREWS, author of The Leviathan

‘Full of allure and brimming with undercurrents of buried secrets… beautifully written and utterly compelling’ - EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost Bookshop

Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her. There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.

Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women’s voices murmuring on the waves…

As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.

Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?

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