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The Spoiled Heart

by Sunjeev Sahota

The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room. Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn’t quite know why. He hasn’t risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before.…

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