The Heart Broke In
- 7 Mar 2013
- 9780857862921
- £10.99
- 560 pp
- 125×200mm
- 30 Aug 2012
- 9780857862938
- £8.79
- 560 pp
- 30 Aug 2012
- 9780857868329
- £25
- 14 hrs 23 min
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award 2012
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award 2012
In a few words
The much-awaited and accomplished new novel from James Meek read by John Lee.
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
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
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
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EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCE
Bec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life
Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet
Alex wants a family if he could only meet the right woman
. . . One man has the information to destroy them all
More about
the book
EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCE
Bec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life
Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet
Alex wants a family if he could only meet the right woman
. . . One man has the information to destroy them all
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the book
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
Intelligent, compelling and epic in scale
Page-turning and absorbing
Victoria Moore
Daily MailJames Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo
Brian Morton
IndependentIn 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
ObserverIntelligent, compelling and epic in scale
Page-turning and absorbing
Victoria Moore
Daily MailJames Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo
Brian Morton
IndependentIn 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
ObserverIntelligent, compelling and epic in scale
Page-turning and absorbing
Victoria Moore
Daily MailJames Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo
Brian Morton
IndependentIn 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
Observer
James Meek
View profileJames Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People’s Act of Love(2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His latest novel The Heart Broke In (2012) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2012 and his novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.
James Meek
View profileJames Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People’s Act of Love (2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.
James Meek
View profileJames Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People’s Act of Love (2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.
