Heart the Lover

'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 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.

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.

Praise for Lily King: 'Lily King is one of our great literary treasures -- MADELINE MILLER
Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit -- ANN PATCHETT
King is one of our finest cartographers of the human heart Time
Gorgeous! -- ELIZABETH STROUT
Dazzling -- EMMA DONOGHUE
Funny and immensely clever -- TESSA HADLEY
A careful, intelligent writer Times Literary Supplement
Glorious . . . I would have followed those sentences anywhere -- EMMA STRAUB
Vivid, moving, immersive -- MARIAN KEYES
In our time of anxiety and isolation, King writes stories to curl up in, by which I mean they afford us something rarely celebrated in literature: comfort New York Times Book Review

Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Euphoria and Writers & Lovers, and the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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