The Sweet Girl Main Edition

The Sweet Girl is a remarkable novel, not just a pleasure to read but also a book that I expect to reread several times. –Jeet Heer, The National Post

The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human. –Marina Endicott, author of The Little Shadows and Good to a Fault

Annabel Lyon is a wonderful writer, adept at breathing life into the ancient past. She reanimates near-mythical characters until we feel we know them intimately–their dreams and desires, their brilliance and their failings–which is an achievement only the finest historical novelists can aspire to. I loved The Golden Mean, and to return to the world of Aristotle and Alexander in The Sweet Girl is a rare pleasure. –Jane Johnson, author of The Tenth Gift, The Salt Road and The Sultan’s Wife

Lyon shows with chilling precision just how quickly a life can unravel… She makes one thing devastatingly clear: in Pytho’s world there’s no such thing as freedom for women… Many reviewers of [Lyon’s previous novel] commented upon the risks of attempting a first novel from Aristotle’s perspective. But creating Pytho took no less boldness. –Madeline Miller, Guardian

Intense, impressionistic and mysterious… This novel thrills in its immediacy and the family at its heart, in their love for each other, are instantly, captivatingly real –Daily Mail

Lyon is an extremely skilled historical novelist… She conjures a cruel, superstitious society in all its visceral otherness. –Financial Times