The Enigmas

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history…

‘A spectacular writer. Her unwavering command of voice, time, and place bring history to life with imagination and purpose, but it is her skill in illuminating the selfless bonds between women that gets me every time’ Bonnie Garmus

‘A luminous novel: richly imagined and full of characters you’ll root for until the end’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists

What would we risk to save the people we love?

Sandbags line London’s streets in 1940, but for Beatrice Bone the Second World War feels distant and dull. It doesn’t help that she’s stuck at home while her younger sister Clemmie is away doing secret war work at a mysterious place called The Park.

Everything changes when Clemmie is killed in a fire. Plunged into grief, Beatrice treasures her sister’s last gift: an antique pocket watch, inscribed with the words memento mori. Remember death.

Beatrice quickly realises the watch is more than a memento when it transports her back in time, giving her the chance to save Clemmie. But every change has a ripple effect, and Beatrice must ask herself: is she risking her own life, or the very future of the world?

In her most ambitious and emotionally resonant novel yet, Emilia Hart once again conjures the power of female resilience and the ability of love to transcend time.