Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret -- DAVID NICHOLLS Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky -- EMMA STRAUB Time moves like memory in Heart the Lover - urgent, intimate, elusive. What does it means to carry a story you never get to finish? With breathtaking precision, Lily King writes about love that lingers and choices that haunt. I read it in a single, breathless sitting -- RUTH OZEKI A tender and memorable novel about love loss and friendship that lifts and undoes you equally -- SUSIE BOYT Indescribably good. It is incredible that Lily has managed to tell such an epic love story in just 250 pages, and I emerged feeling ruined for all other books. I adored these characters and feel lucky to have known them. I'm in awe. A perfect literary love story -- FLORENCE KNAPP I inhaled this novel in one breathless gulp, constantly asking myself, how is she doing it? How is she writing this tender, funny, deeply empathetic novel while also making it impossible for me to stop turning the page? Heart the Lover is a magic pill and Lily King is its virtuosic alchemist -- TAHMIMA ANAM King is a genius at writing love stories . . . That college love affair you never got over? Come wallow in this gorgeous version of it * * Kirkus * * Praise for Lily King: 'Lily King is one of our great literary treasures -- MADELINE MILLER Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit -- ANN PATCHETT King is one of our finest cartographers of the human heart * * Time * *
