The Treasures: A Novel [Paperback]

From bestselling, beloved author Harriet Evans, a moving, page-turning saga about one family’s journey across half a century—and about the extraordinary house that they call home.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures—the keepsakes, figurines, and mementos 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, trying 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.

Gripping and beautifully written, this story follows a family and a house over fifty years and three generations, of their beginning and their ending, and of finding the treasures that symbolize the most important memories in our lives.

The Treasuresis 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, while her sense of period and place is impeccable. -Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters

A treasure indeed! Harriet always creates a world you want to step into. Her characters are so beguiling, even when they are flawed, and my heart was in my mouth as I followed their stories. Her descriptions are rich in beauty and detail, and there is passion and intrigue and secrets galore. And a heart-stopping love story at the heart of it. A much-needed return to the kind of doorstop book we all long to get lost in. ThlCÃ