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Heart the Lover

Written 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
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Takes you through life gently and then throws you at the deep end all at once

Fantastic

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The love, the pain, the fear - all emotions bundle in one. A story which cannot be written any other way.

Beautiful story of fearful hearts with deep love

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So heartbreaking! Never saw it coming- all of that sadness flooding in to make the reading experience absolutely cathartic.

Characterisation

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I did not expect this. I am heartbroken and sad. Moved by the fluidity of the prose. A book that pulls you back in time and makes you so nostalgic.

Oh my god

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I liked how she dint let her emotions sway when she said that he abandoned here before the end. The ending was sad i felt deeply for yash how much he loved her. I like jordan how much she had to go throw even during her pregnancy. Only worry was her accumulating debt that poor choice lf pouring out your heart to someone who doesn't deserve her the first love.

The emotions at the end.

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