Anaxagoras and D’Artagnan say:
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow reads like historical fiction but the narrative is driven by a concept that is inherently fantasy . It's a beautiful and heartbreaking tale of a man who is forced to confront the real woman behind a historical legend that he’s been long obsessed with, and decide if he can keep making her play her part in history, or if history can be changed. This story is beautiful, frustrating (in the best way) and surprising. A truly worthwhile read.
Synopsis:
From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.
A legend. A lie. A love story.
A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters - but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory - failed soldier, struggling scholar - falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way.
If they want to rewrite Una’s legend, and finally tell a different story, they’ll have to rewrite history itself - and change their lives in the process.
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