Review
A masterpiecea terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy -- Toby Clements Sunday Telegraph
Compelling...profoundly moving -- Leyla Sanai The Independent on Sunday
A pleasure from start to finishWHERE 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 Published On: 2015-08-30
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 novels gimlet-eyed and engaging narrator, Dr Robert Hendricks Sunday Telegraph
Combining anty, 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
a powerful and moving novel Daily Express
This is not a wartime tragic romance, or a simple story of trauma. It is much more affecting than that. -- Rosemary Goring Herald
An intelligent and moving examination of the traumas of war. Faulks is as accomplished as ever Scotsman, Books of the Year
Its a melancholy tale of war, love and loss that will leave you gulping back sobs Observer, Books 2015 in Review
Faulks gets better and better with every book. This is surely one of the years best novels. -- John Harding Daily Mail Published On: 2015-09-04About the Author
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week stseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
