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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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Beautiful writing, interesting story full of love, well read. It’s a shame it had to end so soon.

Magical

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This is not what I expected - it’s very emotional and the writer is excellent at being able to pin point feelings un said or situations - at the start I was little put off - just listening to normal teenage relationships but the second half of really got me

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So beautifully describes a lifelong friendship and love of 3 friends. Written carefully and intentionally with a poetic style. I wish I could read it again for the first time. If you are about to, I’m jealous. Enjoy!

Incredible. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. 5 stars.

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Moving, I guess, but it didn’t move me as much as it probably should have. The prose was exquisite, but I’m not sure I really believed in the characters.,

Beautifully written

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Starting out I felt I had read versions of this type of love story before but midway through it really became special and unique. It was absolutely beautifully read. Felt like I was reading someone’s situation as it unfolded. Cried

Beautiful and tender

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