Product Description
The Spoiled Heart
Author: Sunjeev Sahota
Format: Paperback
In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again.
Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer Megha, who threatens not just his career ambitions, but his ideals.
Meanwhile the enigmatic Helen Fletcher returns to Chesterfield and Nayan finds himself growing close to her. But Helen carries secrets which connect her to Nayan in ways he doesn't realise.
The Spoiled Heart is an explosive story of how a few words or a single action - to one person careless, to another, charged - can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences.
'One of Britain's finest writers...page-turning' — Observer
'Withheld revelations and dark secrets...plot-packed, propulsive' — New York Times
'Gripping...irresistible...brilliant' — The Times
'Utterly compelling, original and very moving' — Tessa Hadley
'Moving and revelatory' — Financial Times
'Smart and sophisticatedly written' — Daily Telegraph
'Perfectly paced...gripping' — Guardian
Readers are obsessed with The Spoiled Heart:
**'A deft and artful novel when it comes to speaking around the philosophical questions that define our current 'culture wars'
**'A compelling story that looks at a number of social and cultural issues but is basically a very absorbing narrative'
**'A masterful novel which asks important topical state-of-the-nation questions'
**'My favourite of Sahota's novels'
About the Author
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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