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  • Published: 10 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473518384
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 5 min
  • Narrator: David Sibley

Where My Heart Used to Beat





The new bestseller from the author of BIRDSONG and A WEEK IN DECEMBER.

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.

His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does.

The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally – unforgettably – back into the trenches of the Western Front.

The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks’s fiction are brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks’s most remarkable book yet.

  • Published: 10 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473518384
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 5 min
  • Narrator: David Sibley

About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

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Praise for Where My Heart Used to Beat

Compelling...profoundly moving

Leyla Sanai, The Independent on Sunday
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