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Miss Archer
  • Published: 5 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241790199
  • Imprint: Fig Tree
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.99

Miss Archer

  • Jordan Harrison
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Hardback
5 Jan 2027
EBook
14 Jan 2027
Audiobook
14 Jan 2027
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Jane Eyre meets The Truman Show meets Never Let me Go in the most audacious, genre-bending debut of 2027

'A brilliant, exhilarating read: Turn of the Screw meets Rebecca meets Never Let Me Go' Jo Harkin, author of The Pretender

Growing up in the Squares, Dre Archer was always told human history was over. Until the day she is plucked from all she knows, and recruited as governess to an enigmatic five-year-old boy. Albie is rash, emotionally obtuse, and possibly a genius. He also believes the year is 1884—two centuries before Dre was born. Everyone working at his family’s grand Victorian manor strives to maintain the illusion, keeping the modern world safely outside their doors. Dre is expected to follow along and not ask questions.

At first, Dre works hard to embody her role as ‘Miss Archer’, with comportment lessons and corsets. But somewhere along the way, the performance begins to feel real—as does her bond with this singular boy. Slowly she is overwhelmed by questions: Why the weird adherence to the 19th century, when it’s the dawn of the 22nd? Why has she never met Albie’s elusive parents? Who are her shadowy employers? And what is her job, really?

In her mounting determination to unlock these mysteries, Dre finds herself flouting the draconian rules of the house. As a series of Russian doll-like revelations brings her closer to the truth, Dre must go to dangerous lengths to protect her young charge, who she has, without quite meaning to, come to love as her own.
  • Published: 5 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241790199
  • Imprint: Fig Tree
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.99
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Praise for Miss Archer

Gothic drama meets a dystopian thriller with jaw-dropping twists ... as wise as it is addictive

Maria Semple, author of Go Gentle

Witty and imaginative, Miss Archer got all of my neurons firing ... A debut novel that is equal parts entertainment and invention

Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

A thought-provoking examination of our human precarity in the form of a page-turner, Miss Archer is tender, chilling, propulsive and told with near-prophetic insight

Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir

A Gothic novel with a flourish of the speculative ... a tale so gripping it’s hard to believe this is a debut

Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

A brilliant, exhilarating read: a thought experiment packed with mystery, twists, humour and feeling: Turn of the Screw meets Rebecca meets Never Let Me Go

Jo Harkin

Completely addictive - I found myself reaching for it every moment I could and thinking about it when I wasn’t reading. Beautifully written and conceived, Miss Archer has a wonderfully lingering impact

Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things