Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction A Sunday Times
Book of the Year A Times Paperback of the Year In her first novel since The Quick and the
Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain
landscape after an environmental apocalypse a world in which only the man-made has value but
some still wish to salvage the authentic. 'When the book was over I missed the awful
cleansing darkness of its eyes upon me ' New Yorker Books of the Year 2021 'This is the
apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by Dalí Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.' Observer
Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize
Longlisted for the PEN Jean Stein Book Award Khristen is a teenager who her mother believes
was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment then came back to life. After
Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors and her mother disappears she
ranges across the dead landscape and finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious putrid
lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms these old
ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction
of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange and delivered with Williams'
searing deadpan wit Harrow is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover
something of it.
