![]() ![]() When the rest of the family discovered that she was pregnant, they promptly fired her. She became pregnant after she was raped by Rory Hulne. ![]() His mother was a kitchen maid who worked in a manor for the Hulne family. The novel then proceeds to describe Harry’s previous incarnations, and how he came to exist in the world in the first place. She has come to Harry with a warning: the end of the world is coming, and it is getting closer every day. As he lies on his deathbed, fully aware of what is in store for him, he receives a visit from a young girl who is also a Kalachakra. The novel starts out as Harry comes to the end of his eleventh life. For Harry August, that location is the women's washroom of Berwick-upon-Tweed station in the North-East of England, where he was first born in 1919. Every time they die, they are reborn and return to the original location of their birth. He is part of a species of humans who live multiple lives. The novel’s protagonist, Harry August, is a Kalachakra. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was featured in both the Richard and Judy Book Club and the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The book received critical acclaim, going on to win the John W. ![]() Claire North, a pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb, published her novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August in April 2014. ![]()
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