{"product_id":"heart-the-lover-by-lily-king-hc","title":"Heart the Lover by Lily King (HC)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'You knew I'd write a book about you someday'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Lily King is an exceptionally good writer . . . vivid, moving and witty. . . King's novel got me straight in the heart\" ―\u003cem\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The novel is steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . It can also be very funny . . . it's a celebration of fiction and how writing can help us to work through tumultuous feelings . . . even as she lets us see how she pulls the strings and evokes our response, King's writing still pierces you\" \u003cem\u003e― \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A triangle charged with secrecy, longing, uncertainty . . . Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity\" \u003cem\u003e― \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover Edition\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Cannongate Books\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1837265497\u003cbr\u003ePages:  256\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44925314203856,"sku":null,"price":1595.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/71XoKWGSh9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1770796418","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/heart-the-lover-by-lily-king-hc","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}