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Awards
Shortlisted for Costa Novel Award 2012.Shortlisted for Fiction Uncovered 2013.
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The Heart Broke In by James Meek – review
James Meek's 2005 novel, The People's Act of Love, was critically acclaimed, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and sold in 30 countries; in 2008 he published We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, which went on to win the Prince Maurice prize – I wa... more.
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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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