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Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson is a British writer of fiction and non-fiction, including her contribution to The Library Book. She has written several novels and memoirs that focus on family dynamics and personal history. Her books,
The Stopped Heart
Synopsis
'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train A New Statesman Book of the Year 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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Mary ColesProtagonist
A woman who moves into a remote cottage and becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind an old tragedy buried in its walls.
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