The Spoiled Heart: From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways

Synopsis

An impossible love, an unthinkable loss, and the desire to make a better world: discover a thrilling new state-of-the-nation novel with a family mystery at its heart'Gripping… irresistible… brilliant' The Times'A plot-packed, propulsive story' New York Times'Perfectly judged and intimately alive' Guardian'Will consume any reader'Washington PostNayan Olak hasn’t risked love since his young son died. Instead he has ploughed his grief and energy into his work at the union, trying to create the world he would have wanted for his boy. Now he’s running for the leadership: a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to the mysterious Helen Fletcher, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.A magnificent and multi-layered account of one man’s inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is an explosively contemporary story of secrets and assumptions whose consequences could never have been imagined.'Thoughtful, searching... a novel at once Shakespearean and thrillingly of our time' Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different 'Fearlessly contemporary and flawlessly observed... one of our essential novelists' Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

336 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781529920192

Related ISBNs:

9781529931594, 9781787304079, 9781787304086, 9781529919202

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Date of Addition:

04/25/24

Copyrighted By:

Sunjeev Sahota

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Parenting and Family, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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