The Spoiled Heart

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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 teenage 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 20 years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son, and he’s now running for the leadership against accomplished newcomer, Megha. It’s a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to Helen, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.

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In one night, Nayan lost everything. Years later, his world is at risk again.

Nayan has fought hard to move on, losing himself in his political work, trying to make a better world. A fresh challenge arrives with newcomer Megha, who threatens not just his career ambitions, but his ideals.

Meanwhile the enigmatic Helen Fletcher returns to Chesterfield and Nayan finds himself growing close to her. But Helen carries secrets which connect her to Nayan in ways he doesn’t realise.

The Spoiled Heart is an explosive story of how a few words or a single action – to one person careless, to another, charged – can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences.

One of Britain’s finest writers?page-turning’ Observer

‘Withheld revelations and dark secrets…plot-packed, propulsive’ New York Times

‘Gripping…irresistible…brilliant’ The Times

‘Utterly compelling, original and very moving’ Tessa Hadley

‘Moving and revelatory’ Financial Times

‘Smart and sophisticatedly written’ Daily Telegraph

‘Perfectly paced?gripping’ Guardian

Readers are obsessed with The Spoiled Heart:

**’A deft and artful novel when it comes to speaking around the philosophical questions that define our current ‘culture wars’

**’A compelling story that looks at a number of social and cultural issues but is basically a very absorbing narrative

**’A masterful novel which asks important topical state-of-the-nation questions

**’My favourite of Sahota’s novels

Additional information

Weight 236 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.8 × 2 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

329

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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