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A devastating story of loss, longing, love and true evil - the stand-out novel from the bestselling author of Something Might Happen.

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´Bloody brilliant´ Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past.

During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it´s clear he has no intention of leaving.

A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent´s worst nightmare. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk. A cottage, a beautiful garden. The perfect place to forget. To move on. But life doesn´t always work that way.
A devastating depiction of profound loss, sexual longing, love and true evil, The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless and original of writers.

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"This is a book that you will turn through the night to reach its conclusion - Myerson has you dying for the end and even surer that you will do just that when you get there. Spoiler alert: don´t expect roses around the door." The Times

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Julie Myerson is the author of Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House and nine novels, including the best-selling Something Might Happen , which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In the words of the Observer , she ´has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.´

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Julie Myerson is the author of Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House and nine novels, including the best-selling Something Might Happen, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In the words of the Observer, she ´has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.´

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