Heart the Lover Signed Edition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:16th Oct '25
It is possible we may get a copy in future, but unfortunately unlikely
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781837265497)
'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.
Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret -- DAVID NICHOLLS
Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky -- EMMA STRAUB
Time moves like memory in Heart the Lover - urgent, intimate, elusive. What does it means to carry a story you never get to finish? With breathtaking precision, Lily King writes about love that lingers and choices that haunt. I read it in a single, breathless sitting -- RUTH OZEKI
King is a master of sexual tension, of the slow build, of gratification torturously delayed. In this respect, Heart the Lover is her best work yet . . . The long-delayed revelations, like the tears, come fast and hot * * New York Times * *
Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page * * Daily Mail * *
Lily King has been steadily building a reputation as a writer who captures the acute landscape of early love - relationships difficult to disentangle from the process of becoming an adult . . . It's an enveloping and sly book, building heft in a manner as mysterious as affairs of the heart * * Vogue * *
A tender and memorable novel about love loss and friendship that lifts and undoes you equally -- SUSIE BOYT
Indescribably good. It is incredible that Lily has managed to tell such an epic love story in just 250 pages, and I emerged feeling ruined for all other books. I adored these characters and feel lucky to have known them. I'm in awe. A perfect literary love story -- FLORENCE KNAPP
It stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read -- PRISCILLA GILMAN * * Boston Globe * *
Ultimately, what interests King is not the way resentment outlives romance; it's the way love outlives romance . . . Only Lily King could tell a story so steeped in sorrow and so filled with hope -- RON CHARLES * * Washington Post * *
ISBN: 9781837265497-S
Dimensions: 220mm x 141mm x 22mm
Weight: 364g
256 pages
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