Where My Heart Used to Beat

A pleasure from start to finish…WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT is that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge.

Alexander Larman, Sunday Express

Faulks gets better and better with every book. This is surely one of the year’s best novels.

John Harding, Daily Mail

a powerful and moving novel

Daily Express

Compelling...profoundly moving

Leyla Sanai, The Independent on Sunday

This is not a wartime tragic romance, or a simple story of trauma. It is much more affecting than that.

Rosemary Goring, Herald

One of his most haunting novels

Mail on Sunday

It could well be Faulks' magnum opus

Gavin Haines, World Travel Guide

expect a passionate story of love lost, delivered by a master storyteller

Good Housekeeping

Deeply philosophical…full of real heart

Heat Magazine

Faulks writes in the grand tradition of realist fiction…Fans of Faulks — and they are legion — will find a great deal to admire and ponder and sorrow at within these pages. Its aspirations are sincere and noble

Spectator

A masterpiece…a terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy

Toby Clements, Sunday Telegraph

a deeply affecting portrait

Metro

Combining as it does the cultural narrative of a complex century forsaken by God and certainty, a serious investigation into the vulnerability of the human mind and an old-fashioned – in the best sense – story of love and war, this is an ambitious, demanding and profoundly melancholy book

Guardian

It’s a melancholy tale of war, love and loss that will leave you gulping back sobs

Observer, Books 2015 in Review

There is everything here: love, loss, death, war, history, memory, ideas, travel, friendship, rivalry, chance – and sex. It comes in an immaculately crafted package that continues an ingenious dual-timeline with plot twists that serve the reader with the exact impression of what it might be to live the life of the novel’s gimlet-eyed and engaging narrator, Dr Robert Hendricks

Sunday Telegraph

An intelligent and moving examination of the traumas of war. Faulks is as accomplished as ever

Scotsman, Books of the Year

An elegant, thoughtful novel

Sunday Mirror

What makes this such an engaging, enjoyable book to read is the depth of the ideas that Faulks explores… As usual, Faulks’ historical research creates a wholly compelling world. Every detail, from glum 1980s New York to the chaos of wartime Belgium, feels fresh and convincing and the characterisation is impeccable

Sunday Express

You’re instantly hooked. There’s a touch of Graham Greene here. The story takes off beautifully.

William Leith, Evening Standard

Faulks, always good, describes the transaction between shrink and sex worker and you’re hooked. A touch of Graham Greene here.

I

Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulk’s most remarkable book yet.

Best

Compelling...profoundly moving

Leyla Sanai, The Independent on Sunday