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By (author) King Lily
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes an achingly beautiful and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
”Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret”
DAVID NICHOLLS
”Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King”s writing still pierces you”
The Times
”Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity”
Independent
”Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page”
Daily Mail
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 a 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.
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Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret
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Lily King is an exceptionally good writer . . . vivid, moving and witty. . . King”s novel got me straight in the heart
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The novel is steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . It can also be very funny . . . it”s a celebration of fiction and how writing can help us to work through tumultuous feelings . . . even as she lets us see how she pulls the strings and evokes our response, King”s writing still pierces you
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A triangle charged with secrecy, longing, uncertainty . . . Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity
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King is a master of sexual tension, of the slow build, of gratification torturously delayed. In this respect, Heart the Lover is her best work yet . . . The long-delayed revelations, like the tears, come fast and hot
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Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page
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One of the sharpest observers of love, relationships and the human condition writing today . . . an accessibly erudite three-act tale of paths not taken and loves misaligned. Equal parts witty, wise and full-box-of-tissues heartbreaking, Heart the Lover is hands down one of the emotionally uplifting stories you”ll read this year
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King”s language is pared back, her sentences uncluttered, but the novel is studded with nuance . . . a gratifying portrait of a young woman learning to take her writing seriously . . . this is a gorgeous, hopeful, life-affirming novel
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Indescribably good. It is incredible that Lily has managed to tell such an epic love story in just 250 pages, and I emerged feeling ruined for all other books. I adored these characters and feel lucky to have known them. I”m in awe. A perfect literary love story
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A tender, devastating exploration of first love, betrayal and the fateful choices we make at pivotal moments in our lives . . . With lyrical prose and emotional depth, Lily King delivers a beautiful tale of love”s enduring imprint that lingers long after the final page
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