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.

Based on a true story of a “scientist” obsessed with the morbid, and his obsession with a young girl that only intensifies after her death, Parry provides a feminist retelling of what is often crudely, and cruelly, portrayed as a ‘great romance’, an ultimate love story. This book questions what it means to be a woman in a world in which your body is not your own, even in death. Graphic and disturbing, but beautifully written, you’ll learn things you never wanted to know; yet through the narrative structure and the voice of Gabriela, you’ll find compassion and empowerment.