Harriet Evans

Harriet Evans is a British novelist whose fiction often examines family history, romantic expectation, and the private costs of apparently enviable lives. Not Without You links two actresses across half a century. Modern British star Sophie Leigh lives in Los Angeles under a professional identity that has displaced much of her earlier self, while the disappearance of 1960s Hollywood actress Eve Noel becomes an increasingly personal mystery. Evans builds the novel through the contrast between studio-era control and contemporary celebrity, allowing the women's stories to illuminate one another rather than treating the past as decoration. Gallery Books published the United States edition in 2014. Evans's wider body of work includes Going Home, Love Always, A Place for Us, and The Wildflowers. Not Without You reflects her interest in layered timelines, homes charged with memory, and characters who must reconsider the stories on which they have built their identities.