Where My Heart Used To Beat

Author: Sebastian Faulks

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780099549246
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : July 2016
  • : 22.99
  • : May 2016
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  • : Sebastian Faulks
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The new bestseller from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December.
 
"You don't live the life I have without making some enemies."Having accepted a strange but intriguing invitation to a French island, psychiatrist Robert Hendricks meets the man who has commissioned him to write a biography. But his subject seems more interested in finding out about Robert's past than he does in revealing his own. For years, Robert has refused to discuss his past. After the war ended, he refused to go to reunions, believing in some way that denying the killing and the deaths of his friends and fellow soldiers would mean he wouldn't be defined by the experience. Suddenly, he can't keep the memories from overtaking him. But can he trust his memories and can we believe what other people tell us about theirs?Moving between the present and past, between France and Italy, New York and London, this is a powerful story about love and war, memory and desire, the relationship between the body and the mind. Compelling and full of suspense, Where My Heart Used to Beat is a tender, brutal and thoughtful portrait of a man and a century, which asks whether, given the carnage we've witnessed and inflicted over the past one hundred years, people can ever be the same.

Author description

Sebastian Faulks comes from a family of lawyers. His father was a judge and his brother, Edward, is a barrister who became a minister in the Ministry of Justice under the coalition.After reading English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Faulks set out to write, first for small magazines, then for newspapers, on the staff of which he worked as reporter, editor and columnist for 13 years. He has since written several bestselling works of fiction including Charlotte Gray, Engleby and Human Traces - as well as the Sunday Times number one bestseller A Week in December. He is a member of the Authors XI cricket team and the Boffins CC, and plays tennis in the West Middlesex league for his local club, Campden Hill. He has recently been working on the First World War centenary commemorations as part of the Government Advisory Group and read from his novel Birdsong in Westminster Abbey on the centenary of the outbreak of war in August 2014.