Orpheus Builds A Girl (Signed 1st Edition)

Heather Parry

ISBN 10: 191354740X / ISBN 13: 9781913547400

Published by Gallic, 2022

About this Item

Olive boards with silver lettering to the spine. Clean pages and firm unread binding Signed by the author to the title page. First print with the full publishers numberline. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Orpheus Builds A Girl (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Gallic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191354740X
• ISBN 13: 9781913547400
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author

About this title

Synopsis

Based on a true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and the battle for control of the story. A dark, chilling debut novel from award-winning writer Heather Parry.

German doctor Wilhelm Von Tore shares with the reader the story of his one true ove; a love written in the stars, decades in the making, a love so strong it transcended death itself. When Wilhelm emigrates to America he carries with him a vision of a dark-haired beauty, presented to him in his dreams by his beloved late Grandmother. In Key West, Florida, a beautiful young woman is taken to him in the grip of illness, and he recognises her immediately as his promised bride. Despite his efforts, the sickness takes hold and his beloved slips away from him. But Wilhelm will not be kept from his destiny, not even by death. Using research compiled over decades, he sets about attempting to restore his love to her body, so that they might be together forever.

But there's another voice in this story: Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. From between the cracks in Wilhelm's story Gabriela recounts her own memory of her sister Luciana, a fiery and difficult young woman, and the madman who robbed her from her grave.