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The Sirens

A Novel

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

  • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
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    spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward

    2019:
    Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found.
    As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess's strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women's voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister's adolescent diary.
    1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has.
    1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they've feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can't explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them...
    A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.

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      • Library Journal

        January 1, 2025

        Hart follows her bestselling debut, Weyward, with a tale of sisters and the sea. Intertwining the present-day stories of sisters Lucy and Jess with Irish twins Mary and Eliza who live in 1800, Hart evokes mystery and myth as the ocean calls to them. With a 300K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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        March 1, 2025
        Ireland, 1800. Sisters Mary and Eliza move far from the seaside after their mother disappears in the waves. Yet they are drawn to water, and when a violent encounter at a brook leads to deportation, they find themselves in horrendous conditions on a ship bound for Australia. In Australia in 2019, Lucy flees university after attacking her lover, who posted a nude photo of her online. Seeking refuge with her older sister, Jess, at Cliff House, Lucy arrives to find Jess has disappeared. All four women, across time, share a violent skin allergy to water, and as Lucy explores Jess' history, the town, and the men who vanished from it, dark secrets emerge. Hart focuses on female bonds and the "unfairness" of the feminine condition, characters noting the "injustice" of being born women. Atmosphere is effectively evoked, Cliff House blooming with mold and near reclamation by the ocean. All melds through the supernatural premise of the Irish merrow (mermaid), which Hart combines with the sirens of Greek mythology, ensuring appeal for those who like their folklore Gothic in flavor and seasoned with feminism.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        February 24, 2025
        Hart (Weyward) delivers a high-voltage tale of family secrets, fantastical occurrences, and Australian history. Lucy, a university student in present-day New South Wales, wakes from a recurring dream about two sisters drowning to find she’s sleepwalked into her ex-lover Ben’s room and is trying to strangle him. Horrified by her actions, she flees to her older sister Jess’s house in the seaside town where their parents once lived, but Jess is nowhere to be found. The town is notorious for the mysterious recovery decades ago of a baby from a nearby cave and the unexplained deaths of several local men. Growing up, Lucy wondered why their parents were so reclusive and why Jess refuses to talk about the past. After Lucy recognizes images from her dreams in Jess’s paintings, she reads Jess’s diary in search of answers. A parallel narrative set in 1800 follows twin sisters Eliza and Mary, who struggle to survive the cruel conditions aboard a convict ship sailing from their native Ireland to Australia. As Hart connects Eliza and Mary’s story with Jess’s diary, Lucy’s dreams, and Lucy’s reason for attacking Ben, the narrative occasionally veers from entertaining to exhausting (story elements thrown into the mix include murder, sexual predators, mystical bodily transformations, otherworldly orphans, and mistaken identities). Still, there’s fun to be had with this spooky page-turner. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, CAA.

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