Heart the Lover

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Heart the Lover

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

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“You knew I’d write a book about you someday.”

Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.

She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.

Decades later, she is successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love.

This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

Lily KingRebecca LowmanCanongate Books

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Heartfelt

Inspiring

Tear-jerking

Thought-Provoking

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A very captivating story that I had to see through, I loved the earlier chapters of the book and felt fully immersed in the story. What is good is that this isn’t the story you expect, it provides a more realistic take, the characters are flawed and I loved that about it. I am still digesting how I feel about the ending.