The Treasures

byHarriet Evans, Emily Barber (Read by)

The Sevenstones Trilogy: Book One

Brought to you by Penguin.

Every family’s story starts somewhere.
Alice and Tom’s begins here.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes 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, and tries 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…

Harriet Evans’s gorgeous new novel is the unputdownable story of Alice, Tom, and Sevenstones. Of a family and a house over fifty years and three generations, of their beginning and their ending, and of finding the treasures that symbolise the most important memories in our lives.

© Harriet Evans 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Magnificent. It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story and such a powerfully compelling world. I enjoyed it so much

Marian Keyes

About Harriet Evans

Harriet Evans is the author of sixteen novels, many of which have been Sunday Times bestsellers, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. She chairs the Policy & Campaigns committee for the Society of Authors, campaigning for creatives against generative AI. She is an ambassador for the London Library and volunteers with Inspiring the Future. She read Classical Studies at Bristol University and before becoming a full-time writer was a book publisher. The Threads is the second novel in a series of connected stories following the Raven family over fifty years. In addition, as Harriet F. Townson, she writes a series of murder mystery novels featuring librarian turned detective Dora Wildwood. She likes reading more than anything else, and lives in Bath with her family and a large and very fluffy cat.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405980388
  • Length: 835 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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