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Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
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Where My Heart Used to Beat

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Narrator David Sibley

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Length 11 hours 4 minutes
Language English
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On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.

His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does.

The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally โ€“ unforgettably โ€“ back into the trenches of the Western Front.

The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulksโ€™s fiction are brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulksโ€™s most remarkable book yet.

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.

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A masterpieceโ€ฆa terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy Compelling...profoundly moving A pleasure from start to finishโ€ฆWHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT is that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge. There is everything here: love, loss, death, war, history, memory, ideas, travel, friendship, rivalry, chance โ€“ and sex. It comes in an immaculately crafted package that continues an ingenious dual-timeline with plot twists that serve the reader with the exact impression of what it might be to live the life of the novelโ€™s gimlet-eyed and engaging narrator, Dr Robert Hendricks Combining as it does the cultural narrative of a complex century forsaken by God and certainty, a serious investigation into the vulnerability of the human mind and an old-fashioned โ€“ in the best sense โ€“ story of love and war, this is an ambitious, demanding and profoundly melancholy book Expand reviews
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