The Heart Is A Star

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins AU
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 291 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell. Layla Byrnes is exhausted. Shes juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly shes managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, its different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesnt follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that theres something she doesnt know about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. Shes determined to finally confront her mother - and find out what really happened to her father - as well as untangle her unravelling life and lay some demons in her past to rest. The Heart is a Star is an engrossing, lyrical and powerfully absorbing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of midlife; about the ways in which we navigate an intricate, complicated world; and about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that made us.

ISBN: 9781460763001