The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIME

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.

No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before.

Nothing ever changes – until now.

As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. ‘I nearly missed you, Doctor August,’ she says. ‘I need to send a message.’

This is the story of what Harry does next, & what he did before, & how he tries to save a past he cannot change & a future he cannot allow.

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Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb. Catherine's first novel under her real name, Mirror Dreams, was completed when she was 14 years old. The book was published in 2002 & garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett & Philip Pullman. She went on to publish a further seven young adult novels under her own name, earning her extensive critical acclaim & two Carnegie nominations for her novels Timekeepers & The Extraordinary & Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle.

While studying International History at the London School of Economics, she wrote an urban fantasy series for adults, writing as Kate Griffin. On graduating LSE she went to the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts to study Technical Theatre & Stage Management.

Throughout her training she continued to write, & while working as a lighting technician at the Royal National Theatre wrote her first Claire North novel, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which became a word-of-mouth bestseller & was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

She has since published several hugely popular & critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award & the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, & been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a Locus Award & the Philip K. Dick Award.