Sebastian Faulks is the award-winning author of Charlotte Gray, Devil May Care, and A Trick of the Light. His newest novel is Where My Heart Used to Beat.
Robert Hendricks, a doctor who works with psychiatric patients, has seen many things in his life, from the English countryside of his childhood to Italy in World War II. But a letter from a stranger asks him to confront everything in his past to get answers about the father he never know.
Robert’s new acquaintance leads him down memory lane as he remembers his childhood, school, war, and love in Italy during the war. Sometimes it seems he knows more about Robert than Robert does, and the painful memories bring back the hurt and loss that Robert has experienced throughout his life, as he grows ever closer to learning who his mysterious father really was.
Where My Heart Used to Beat is a poignant, introspective novel that takes the reader to the English countryside and a life that was forever changed by loss and the war.
(Galley provided by Henry Holt & Company via NetGalley.)
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Have you read Birdsong by Faulks? Would definitely recommend it if you enjoyed his other work – it’s a profoundly moving book.
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I have not. This is actually the first of his books I’ve read. Thank you for the recommendation.
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My pleasure!
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