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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.

©2025 Lily King (P)2025 Canongate Books Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking Inspiring
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Just a beautiful book. I cried in the car listening to it. I’m sure I’ll re read i.

Stunning

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Good book overall...it took a while to get into, loved the last hour or so!

A little overhyped

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A beautiful story of love and the ultimate moral of the story being - be true to your feelings and tell people how you feel! Get me gripped on audio too, which isn’t easily done for me with fiction on audio. Loved it!

Beautiful and utterly heartbreaking

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This novel reminds us that love is complicated & that we sometimes make mistakes we cannot fix. I feel as though it will stay with me a long time. For me, very realistic characterisation and a perfect narrative voice.

Beautiful and heartbreaking

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A beautiful book about love and loss. One of those stories that really suits being read aloud too.

This one will stay with me a long time

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