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“Since his young son and mother were killed in a fire and the subsequent marriage breakdown, union organiser Nayan Olak has devoted his life to his work but he's intrigued by a woman who has moved to his town at a time when he seems certain to win the upcoming election for head of his union. His bid is challenged by a younger colleague and his apparently unstoppable campaign is challenged. At the same time his new relationship threatens to upset his past. This is a terrific book.”
— Mark • Readings
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The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenage son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn’t quite know why.
He hasn’t risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son, and he’s now running for the leadership against accomplished newcomer, Megha. It’s a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to Helen, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.
A magnificent and multi-layered account of one man’s inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is an explosively contemporary story of secrets and assumptions whose consequences could never have been imagined. It is a stunning achievement from one of our very finest novelists.
'Sahota is a writer who knows how to turn a phrase, how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night to learn what happens next' - Kamila Shamsie, Women's Prize-winning author of Home Fire
'A wonderfully evocative storyteller' Independent
©2024 Sunjeev Sahota (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Sunjeev Sahota is the highly acclaimed author of Ours Are the Streets, The Year of the Runaways and China Room. The Year of the Runaways was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize and the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and won the Encore Prize, the South Bank Sky Arts Award, and the European Union Prize for Literature. China Room was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Sahota was chosen as one of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2013 and is a fellow of the RSL. He lives in Sheffield and teaches at Durham University. The Spoiled Heart is his fourth novel.
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