{"product_id":"heart-the-lover-lily-king","title":"Heart the Lover - Lily King","description":"\u003cp data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-keynote\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-keynote\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e'You knew I'd write a book about you someday'\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003eWritten with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\"Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.\"—\u003cb\u003eEmma Straub, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Time moves like memory in Heart the Lover—urgent, intimate, elusive. What does it mean 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.\" —\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki, author of the Women's Prize for Fiction winner \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" —\u003cb\u003eFlorence Knapp, New York Times bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e The Names\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47661651165338,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/files\/9781837265787HeartTheLover.jpg?v=1774234345","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.pro\/products\/heart-the-lover-lily-king","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}