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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 Inspiring Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking
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Just a beautiful book. I cried in the car listening to it. I’m sure I’ll re read i.

Stunning

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A very captivating story that I had to see through, I loved the earlier chapters of the book and felt fully immersed in the story. What is good is that this isn’t the story you expect, it provides a more realistic take, the characters are flawed and I loved that about it. I am still digesting how I feel about the ending.

4/5 would recommend

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A beautiful story of love and the ultimate moral of the story being - be true to your feelings and tell people how you feel! Get me gripped on audio too, which isn’t easily done for me with fiction on audio. Loved it!

Beautiful and utterly heartbreaking

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What a beautiful story and so eloquently written. I want to read everything Lily writes

My heart is shattered

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It was a bit long winded in places but enjoyed it overall. It might lead on to another?

Good story

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