Heart The Lover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret’ DAVID NICHOLLS’Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . .

King’s writing still pierces you’ The Times’Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity’ Independent’Beautifully written . . .