The Stopped Heart

'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past.

During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage.

Eliza and her parents take him in.

But very soon, it?

€™s clear he has no intention of leaving.

A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent?

€™s worst nightmare.

Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk.

A cottage, a beautiful garden.

The perfect place to forget.

To move on.

But life doesn?

€™t always work that way.

A devastating depiction of profound loss, sexual longing, love and true evil, The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless and original of writers.