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Heart the Lover

Lily King

INSTANT You knew I’d write a book about you someday.

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Cher mentioned finishing the book during a break, calling it a sad story that left her feeling melancholy.

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I finished a book though over the break. It's called Heart the Lover. I finished it. It was really sad and made me feel melancholy.

— Episode: Cher

Episode: Cher

Cher mentioned finishing the book during a break, calling it a sad story that left her feeling melancholy.

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I finished a book though over the break. It's called Heart the Lover. I finished it. It was really sad and made me feel melancholy.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Maureen Corrigan praised the book’s vivid, emotionally charged prose and noted that it functions as both a prequel and sequel to the author’s earlier novel, offering a compelling triangular love story that stands on its own. She highlighted its themes of making mistakes, personal growth, and confronting loss, and suggested listeners could enjoy it without having read the previous work.

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Episode: Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'

Maureen Corrigan highlighted the novel's vivid, emotionally charged prose and noted it functions as both a prequel and sequel to King's earlier book, weaving a complex love story across decades.

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title of Lily King's latest novel, Heart the Lover, comes from a card game that the three main characters play starting when they meet in college.

Heart the Lover opens in a college class of the 1980s.

Heart the Lover is both a prequel and a sequel to King's novel, Writers and Lovers, which made my best-of-the-year list in 2020.

Heart the Lover is about screwing up, wising up, finding yourself, and realizing what you may have lost in the process.

You don't have to have read the earlier novel to be drawn into what's essentially a great triangular love story.

Episode: Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Se...

Maureen Corrigan referenced it as a companion novel to Lily King's "Writers and Lovers" with an ingenious structure that stands on its own.

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Heart the Lover is a companion novel to Lily King's 2020 novel, Writers and Lovers, but the structure of this followup is so ingenious that you don't have to have read the earlier book.

Episode: Homelessness In The New Gilded Age

The work was presented as a companion novel to Lily King's Writers & Lovers, offering a miniaturist take reminiscent of Jane Austen.

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my last fiction pick is more in the Jane Austen miniaturist mode Heart the Lover is a companion novel to Lily King's 2020 novel Writers and Lovers.

Episode: Best Of: Michael Shannon / ‘Pluribus’ Star Rhea Se...

Maureen Corrigan mentioned Heart the Lover as a companion novel to Lily King's Writers and Lovers, noting its inventive structure that lets readers enjoy it without reading the earlier book.

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Heart the Lover is a companion novel to Lily King's 2020 novel Writers and Lovers, but the structure of this followup is so ingenious that you don't have to have read the earlier book.

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