La arpía

A dark and astonishing fairy tale, at once mythical and otherworldly and fiercely contemporary. A novel about love, marriage and its failures, power and revenge, metamorphosis and renewal. Lucy and Jake live in a house next to a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. She works from home, adapting where she has gotten her routine to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like a sly old friend. She until, one day, she receives a call from a stranger with a devastating message: her wife is having an affair with Lucy's husband, and she wants her to know about it. A revelation that inevitably has consequences. Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, with a strange modified condition to maintain some balance and thus save their marriage: she will hurt him three times. Jake won't know when, or how. As the pair undergo a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy herself begins to change, surrendering to a transformation of mind and body from which there is no return.

Inga Pellisa, born in Barcelona, changed her studies from Chemistry to Humanities after the experience of her first job in a bookstore. After this and working for several years as an editor, which gave her extensive experience in the world of publishing, her interests turned to translation. Since 2011, she has published more than 60 translations of fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. She has translated George Orwell, Angela Davis, Emma Cline, Megan Hunter, John Lanchester, Judith Butler, Richard Hoggart, Patricia Lockwood, Natasha Brown, Julian Barnes or Sally Rooney. She has a BA and MA in English Literature from Sussex and Cambridge. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her novel, The End We Start From, has been published in the UK, US and Canada, and translated into eight languages. Her poetry, her short fiction and her non-fiction have been reviewed in The White Review, The TLS, Literary Hub and BOMB Magazine, among many others, establishing her as one of the UK's leading indie authors. She currently lives in Cambridge with her young family.