The Sunday Times bestselling seductive retelling of the classic myth from award-winning author Caro De Robertis

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD

'A brilliant and luminous writer' Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe

'Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly subversive' Cristina_García, author of Dreaming in Cuban

'A natural storyteller' Washington Post

Theirs was a love that defied the gods... Eros, daughter to the goddess Aphrodite, has the ability to change her gender at will, much to the displeasure of Zeus. When Psyche is sacrificed by her parents to a ''monstrous husband'' to appease Aphrodite''s envy at her beauty, she discovers that her husband is in fact female - but her initial trepidation is soon replaced with joy when the two fall deeply in love and Eros teaches her what passion truly means. Eros only visits her new bride under cover of darkness and will not permit her face to be seen. Overwhelmed by love, lust and curiosity, Psyche is tempted to break her vow and sneak a look by lamplight... A gloriously anarchic and seductive retelling of the myth of Psyche and Eros, this is Carolina De Robertis'' masterpiece: groundbreaking, gender-fluid and hugely enjoyable.

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Caro De Robertis, a Uruguayan-American writer born in the UK, is the author of five previous novels including CANTORAS and THE GODS OF TANGO. In 2022, they received the Dos Passos Prize, awarded annually to an American author who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and deserves more recognition. De Robertis is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with their two children.

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WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD

'A brilliant and luminous writer' Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achillesand Circe

'Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly subversive' CristinäGarcía, author of Dreaming in Cuban

'A natural storyteller' Washington Post Theirs was a love that defied the gods...