{"product_id":"orpheus-builds-a-girl","title":"Orpheus Builds a Girl","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA hotly-anticipated modern Gothic horror story of sexual obsession, medical abuse, and coercion masquerading as love, for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Eliza Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A chilling exploration of power, love and grief, written with incredible precision by a major talent” — Julia Armfield, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a gruesome true story, this is a compelling, horrifying, and heartbreaking debut novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and the battle to control—and challenge—a perpetrator’s twisted version of events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his youth in Dresden, his grandmother and his medical career during WWII. But mostly, he remembers his darling Luci, the dark-haired beauty promised to him years before they met.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough only together for a few months \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ein her first life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Wilhelm knows their love is written in the stars. And he ensures that death is only the beginning. But through the cracks in Wilhelm’s story there is another voice–that of Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. She tells instead the story of her fearless sister Luciana and the madman who robbed her from her grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreepy yet intensely gripping, sinister yet shot through with mesmerizing beauty, this is the debut novel from Heather Parry, a rising literary star of the genre, longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003eder-toggle=\"{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301835641117,"sku":"9781805337966","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781805337966.jpg?v=1756488308","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/orpheus-builds-a-girl","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}