The Treasures
The Sevenstones Trilogy: Book One
by Harriet Evans
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Pub Date Jun 12 2025 | Archive Date Jun 27 2025
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Description
‘Immersive, captivating, utterly transporting . . . reading Harriet Evans is like coming home’ STACEY HALLS
‘Magnificent. It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story and such a powerfully compelling world. I enjoyed it so much’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A gripping family saga, intertwining two families, two big loves, 60s New York and 50s London. If you love the Cazalets you’ll love this’ DAISY BUCHANAN
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Every family’s story starts somewhere.
Alice and Tom’s begins here.
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and momentoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost. Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, and tries to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson.
Tom Raven can’t understand why he keeps losing so many of the things and people that really matter to him, but he knows for certain that something important is missing from his life. One day, he remembers a forgotten letter and makes a phone call, then leaves Sevenstones, the only place that feels like home, for a strange city . . .
An enchanting, unputdownable new novel about two people finding one another and the sweeping family story that follows, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wildflowers and The Beloved Girls.
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‘Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a big family saga and they don’t come much bigger and more satisfying than The Treasures . . . a compelling and richly evocative tale’ IRISH TIMES
'An absorbing, richly imagined tale of one family’s beginnings, and the fates and fortunes that ricochet down through generations. Evans’ characters are built to love and root for . . . I was gripped and transported by the lives of Alice and Tom’ EMMA STONEX
‘Razor sharp . . . an enjoyable family saga with some modern twists . . . quite delicious’ THE TIMES
‘Filled with intricate detail, this book will entrance and move you. Harriet Evans is a master storyteller’ KATIE FFORDE
‘Harriet Evans is our go-to author for sweeping cross-generational stories’ FABULOUS
‘A pure delight from start to finish. You’ll be longing for the next book’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘The very definition of escape’ VERONICA HENRY
‘[Harriet] has such a skill to draw readers in, and any fans of multi-generational stories will love this one’ PRIMA
‘An absolute treat’ RED
‘Packed with beautiful characterisation and atmospheric settings’ WOMAN & HOME
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780241741375 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 368 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Sarah B, Reviewer
This is the first in a series of three family chronicles by Harriet Evan’s and I can’t wait to read the next ones.
The story is in several parts but is all have a link to n English house which we learn at the beginning is now up for sale after being in the same family since the Second World War.
The first part of the story is about a teenager, Alice, who lives in a small town near New York. We wonder how she could be connected to the English house, but things start to become clearer at the end of the book.
In the second part of the book we meet a young boy who has spent his early years in a remote Scottish hamlet but is taken by his aunt to live in post war London. There are some well written scenes and the author conveys the era extremely well. Bomb sites, teddy boys and the windrush immigrants all feature.
The third part of the story moves to New York in The 1960s hippy era and again, the writing is very good and the reader feels like they are there.
I devoured this book and am looking forward to the next one. I was disappointed when it ended and I have to wait to find out more,
Thank you to the publisher and net galley for this advance copy.
Hattie K, Reviewer
As ever an utterly engrossing story of the families that birth us and those we make ourselves. I was riveted and delighted to once again be immersed in one of Evans' stories.
Reviewer 774133
The Treasures by Harriet Evans
The first in a trilogy and it's got all the hallmarks of becoming an epic read.
I love how the author is so great at drawing you into quite complex family tales.
We firstly meet Alice on the cusp of womanhood and lives near New York , and her connection to a house located in England.
We then skip to a remote part of Scotland and then just after ww2 he is taken to London to live with an aunt .
The title takes us to the 1960s and wear are in the era of change for young people with the swinging 60s and all that it entails.
Very entertaining book. 5 stars.
Jacqueline P, Reviewer
New York, London, Wiltshire, Dumfries and Galloway are all portrayed in this unusual family saga. Romance, happiness and sadness from the era of the Second World War to the 1960’s are depicted and the emotions involved will leave readers inevitably wanting more. Gloriously inventive story telling.
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