We’d like to offer a huge congratulations to Jane Healey on her new novel, Crescendo, a “seductive, opulent historical novel about music and desire.”
Crescendo was pre-empted by Harvill Secker and will hit bookshelves in spring 2026. From the publisher, “We are thrilled to be welcoming Jane to the Harvill Secker list. There is a singularly hypnotic quality to her writing, bold, propulsive and original, which has captivated the whole team. Like a Sarah Waters novel meets Challengers, Crescendo is seductive in every sense of the word and I can’t wait for readers to be drawn into the glitz and the peril of Max and Natasha’s world.”
Jane was shortlisted for the 2013 Bristol Short Story Prize, with her story, Pool Boy, which is published in our Volume 6 anthology, by Tangent Books. We wish Jane all the best with her new novel!