The Stopped Heart - Hardcover

Myerson, Julie

3.52

2,176 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224102494 ISBN 13: 9780224102490

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2016

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'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

A New Statesman Book of the Year

Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past.

During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it’s clear he has no intention of leaving.

A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk. A cottage, a beautiful garden. The perfect place to forget. To move on. But life doesn’t always work that way.
A devastating depiction of profound loss, sexual longing, love and true evil, The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless and original of writers.

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Review:

"This is a book that you will turn through the night to reach its conclusion ― Myerson has you dying for the end and even surer that you will do just that when you get there. Spoiler alert: don’t expect roses around the door." (The Times)

"It’s the sort of book you cannot put down, partly because it is so addictive and partly because if you do put it down, you know you will spend the next few hours startling at every creaking door... It really is unremittingly, heart-stoppingly dark." (Viv Groskop Observer)

"The German word unheimlich captures best what Myerson writes about so well: that eerie sense when something is both familiar and unfamiliar. The English word for that is 'uncanny'." (Katherine Weber New York Times)

"Filled with darkness... An unsettling and disturbing tale." (Beth Jones Sunday Telegraph)

"There’s a rhythm to these purposeful leaps between past and present that becomes part of the experience of reading this increasingly gripping novel.... The German word unheimlich captures best what Myerson writes about so well: that eerie sense when something is both familiar and unfamiliar" (New York Times)

"Myerson evokes mystery and madness, with glimpses into devastating events, the full extent of which are slowly and skilfully uncovered." (Hannah Nathanson Vogue)

"I raced through this compelling story of parental heartbreak interspersed with the unravelling a century-old crime." (Cathy Rentenbrink Bookseller)

"The story is heart wrenching, unremittingly grisly... A thriller and...a page-turner... The Stopped Heart exposes the flesh of the lives cut in half, the pain and loves of the past, and why they are no less real than the present." (Heloise Wood Independent on Sunday)

"Darkness courses through Myerson’s psychological horror novel." (Francesca Angelini Sunday Times)

"A brilliantly unsettling read. Myerson’s elegant prose creates a suffocating feeling of dread as the psychological consequences of loss and violence are mercilessly revealed." (Eithne Farry Mail on Sunday)

Book Description:

A New Statesman Book of the Year

A devastating story of loss, longing, love and true evil – the stand-out novel from the bestselling author of Something Might Happen.

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