Heather Parry launches Orpheus Builds A Girl
Heather Parry will join Kirsty Logan at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street to discuss her dark and stunning debut novel, Orpheus Builds A Girl!
About Heather Parry launches Orpheus Builds A Girl
Heather Parry launches her debut novel, a brilliant Gothic take on real events told through the voices of a brilliant doctor determined to keep the lost object of his obsession alive, and the sister of that object, with her own memories and recollections of the real woman whose grave has been violated...
Heather will be in discussion with Kirsty Logan about drawing on real events for fiction, the nature of obsession, writing Gothic fiction, and the importance and power of story and Story, in a conversation about her dark and stunning novel.
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 love; 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.
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