The Heart Has Its Reasons - Softcover

Duenas, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145166835X ISBN 13: 9781451668353

Publisher: Atria Books, 2015

Synopsis

Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.

A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions.

But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life.

Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew.

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Review:

"Dueñas more than lives up to her title as one of the best contemporary authors today."----El Mundo (Spain)

"In vivid moving prose, María Dueñas tells a story that is highly entertaining."----La Vanguardia (Spain)

"A story you will not want to put down."----Donna Moderna (Italy)

"Dueñas's second novel is able maintain the same pitch of urgency as The Time in Between."----La Repubblica (Italy)

"An ingeniously architectural work structured around fascinating lives."---- Baarnsche Courant (Holland)

About the Author:

María Dueñas holds a PhD in English philology. After two decades in academia, she broke onto the literary scene in 2009 with the publication of the New York Times bestselling novel The Time in Between, followed by The Heart Has Its Reasons in 2012. Both novels became international bestsellers and have been translated into thirty-five languages. The television adaptation of The Time in Between earned critical and international acclaim. The Vineyard is her third novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 145166835X
• ISBN 13: 9781451668353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400