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The Heart Broke In
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John Lee
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James Meek
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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Recensioni della critica
"James Meek's new novel has all the urgent readability of his previous work combined with a wide-ranging vision of social and personal responsibility that's very rare in current fiction. I suppose we could call it a moral thriller. Whatever we call it, I was enormously impressed."
"Addictive . . . Meek is a novelist of Dostoevskyan intensity and seriousness . . . Terrific . . . You have to admire the scope and ambition of this operatic saga"
"Intelligent, compelling and epic in scale"
"Page-turning and absorbing" (Victoria Moore)
"James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo" (Brian Morton)
"In a literary culture that rewards narrow little books by sixtysomething white men about what it's like to be a sixtysomething white man, Meek's range, humour and boldness are a joy" (Louise Doughty)
"Set in the near future, [Meek's] sinister media underworld hits on the zeitgeist . . . the characterisation is affectionate and the story is gripping"
"An enjoyable, thought-provoking read, going beyond satire to throw the questions back to the reader" (Andrea Mullaney)
"This is a big juicy slab of a book, as thrilling and nourishing as a Victorian three-parter . . . Meek constantly shift's the reader's own moral foundations, as we try to decide who is doing right and wrong and why and how" (Whynn Weldon)
"The Heart Broke In is a realistic slice of life at the bench, reflecting both the admirable and the unflattering qualities of scientists"
"This page-turning tale ranges over contemporary London like a magnet, tugging up the nuggets of friction that make a great book . . . the writing is at times so lovely that it shouldn't be rushed, but savoured" (Louise Chunn)
"Meek's characterization is excellent and the dilemmas he gives the players in his drama are convincing and intense enough to hurt . . . he manages to do this while keeping the pages turning as fast as any thriller. This is a feast of a novel, to which I shall return again and again" (Elsbeth Linder)
"Meeks looks at the question of family, what it means and how actions affect the people in it. He weaves complicated lives, entwines characters in layers and layers of history until they can't breathe or escape from each other" (Claire Snook)
"Meek's novel is energised by a dynamic interplay of social, cultural, philosophical and scientific ideas, and as befits a big, serious fiction, it has the courage to address big, serious issues" (Trevor Lewis)
"A novel shimmering with black humour, which for the sheer verve of the writing deserves a long shelf life" (Lucy Beresford)
"The burning desire to discover how it all pans out propels one to finish this bravura book by a remarkable writer"
"A wonderfully sharp, intelligently observed and often very funny novel" (Toby Clements)
"Plenty to relish in this topical novel pitched enjoyably between thriller and satire"
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