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The Stopped Heart

by Julie Myerson · 2016

ISBN: 1473522374 9781473522374

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 416

<p><b>'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of <i>The Girl on the Train</i></b><br><br>Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past. <br><br> During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it’s clear he has no intention of leaving. <br><br> A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk. A cottage, a beautiful garden. The perfect place to forget. To move on. But life doesn’t always work that way. <br>A devastating depiction of profound loss, sexual longing, love and true evil, <i>The Stopped Heart</i> is the finest novel to date from this most fearless and original of writers.</p>