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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780857862907

RRP: £17.99

PAGES: 560

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 30, 2012

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The Heart Broke In

Would you betray your lover to give them what they wanted? Bec Shepherd is a malaria researcher struggling to lead a good life. Ritchie, her reprobate brother, is a rock star turned TV producer. When Bec refuses an offer of marriage from a powerful newspaper editor and Ritchie’s indiscretions catch up with him, brother and sister are forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal. The Heart Broke In is an old-fashioned story of modern times, a rich, ambitious family drama of love, death and money in the era of gene therapy and internet blackmail. From the author of the ‘spellbinding’ (Guardian), ‘quite extraordinary’ (Philip Pullman), ‘startlingly original’ (Mail on Sunday) novel, The People’s Act of Love

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One of the country's finest writers. – GQ

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James Meek

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People’s Act of Love (2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.