
The Heart Broke In
James Meek(Author)
Canongate Books (Publisher)
Published on 7. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-85786-292-1 (ISBN)
Description
EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCE
Bec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life
Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet
Alex wants a family if he could only meet the right woman
. . . One man has the information to destroy them all
Bec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life
Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet
Alex wants a family if he could only meet the right woman
. . . One man has the information to destroy them all
Reviews / Votes
James Meek's new novel has all the urgent readability of his previous work combined with a wide-ranging vision of social and personal responsibility that's very rare in current fiction. I suppose we could call it a moral thriller. Whatever we call it, I was enormously impressed. * * Philip Pullman * * Addictive . . . Meek is a novelist of Dostoevskyan intensity and seriousness . . . Terrific . . . You have to admire the scope and ambition of this operatic saga * * Guardian * * Intelligent, compelling and epic in scale * * Woman & Home * * Page-turning and absorbing -- Victoria Moore * * Daily Mail * * James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo -- Brian Morton * * Independent * * In a literary culture that rewards narrow little books by sixtysomething white men about what it's like to be a sixtysomething white man, Meek's range, humour and boldness are a joy -- Louise Doughty * * Observer * * Set in the near future, [Meek's] sinister media underworld hits on the zeitgeist . . . the characterisation is affectionate and the story is gripping * * We Love This Book * * An enjoyable, thought-provoking read, going beyond satire to throw the questions back to the reader -- Andrea Mullaney * * Scotland on Sunday * * This is a big juicy slab of a book, as thrilling and nourishing as a Victorian three-parter . . . Meek constantly shift's the reader's own moral foundations, as we try to decide who is doing right and wrong and why and how -- Whynn Weldon * * Spectator * * The Heart Broke In is a realistic slice of life at the bench, reflect-ing both the admirable and the unflattering qualities of scientists * * Nature Magazine * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85786-292-1 (9780857862921)
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Person
James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. His novel The People's Act of Love(2005) won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been published in more than thirty countries. His latest novel The Heart Broke In (2012) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2012 and his novel We Are Now Beginning our Descent (2008) won the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the author of two other novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism has won a number of British and international awards. He lives in London.