The Daughters
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:11th Feb '27
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 11th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An electrifying novel from New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison: the haunting tale of three women across time, connected by the fate of the ancient queen Pasiphaë and her legendary son, the Minotaur.
Every monster has two mothers - the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together. Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain in pursuit of her own desires. In the aftermath, she must figure out how to love a son the world calls monstrous, and how deep into the darkness she is willing to travel. New York, 1944: Beth yearns for something more than her picture-perfect life in the suburbs. But when an old friend calls and an image from the ancient past takes hold of her, Beth's cloistered world cracks open, forcing her to make an impossible choice. Crete, 1997: Reeling from grief after her father's death, Jac finds unexpected solace with a mysterious community of women living in the hills of Crete. Under the thrall of the women's charismatic leader, Jac feels compelled to stay. But the longer she remains, the darker the secrets she uncovers. Spanning centuries, The Daughters follows three women bound together by fate, in a gripping story about desire, sacrifice, devotion and the price of freedom.
Fierce, stunning and beautiful. The Daughters is an indelible novel about motherhood, friendship, loyalty and self-definition. Leslie Jamison writes with passion and marvellous dexterity, catapulting across time and modes of storytelling with ease. Sensual and deeply imaginative, this novel consumed me -- Katie Kitamura
I haven't been this excited about a myth since Anne Carson. The Daughters is modern and timeless at once. At the heart of each of its propulsive storylines, I found a truth about female relationships so bright it's hard to look at directly. Jamison is my north star. I come out of every single one of her books changed -- Madeline Cash
Leslie Jamison is the best we have -- Lena Dunham
Leslie Jamison's The Daughters is a powerhouse, blistering and frank. Jamison builds ravishing eddies of chaos and redemption. There's centripetal delight in all the vortical whoosh, in seeing the universal unspoken set down in ink. I'll be thinking about The Daughters - its final pages, its final line - forever -- Kaveh Akbar
She is an incredible writer -- Florence Welch
The Daughters is a breathtaking tour-de-force that moves seamlessly across time, dimensions, and memory. Spanning generations and centuries, the novel traces the paradoxes of human connection with astonishing scope and emotional precision. Gripping, yet deeply intimate, funny and heart-wrenching, Jamison delivers a profound reckoning with all the things, light and dark, we summon under the name of love. An absolute epic -- Hala Alyan
A literary tour de force. The Daughters manages to be both an epic - spanning millennia, blurring myth and reality - and an intimate portrait of women's inner lives as they navigate desire, motherhood, and loss. It's beautifully written, fast paced, funny, and profound. I could not tear myself away -- J. Courtney Sullivan
Leslie Jamison is so intelligent, so compassionate and so fiercely, prodigiously brave -- Eleanor Catton
Leslie Jamison writes with her whole heart and an unconfined intelligence -- Michelle Orange
The Daughters is visceral, lush, startling and unforgettable, as all great myths must be. Leslie Jamison proves herself once more to be a master of her craft and a storyteller for the ages -- Julia Phillips
ISBN: 9781783788941
Dimensions: unknown
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304 pages