Where My Heart Used to Beat

By: Sebastian Faulks

Narrated by: David Sibley

Brought to you by Penguin.

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.

His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does.

The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally – unforgettably – back into the trenches of the Western Front.

The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks’s fiction are brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks’s most remarkable book yet.

©2015 Sebastian Faulks (P)2015 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

A masterpiece…a terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy (Toby Clements)

Compelling...profoundly moving (Leyla Sanai)

A pleasure from start to finish…WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT is that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge. (Alexander Larman)

This is not a wartime tragic romance, or a simple story of trauma. It is much more affecting than that. (Rosemary Goring)

Faulks gets better and better with every book. This is surely one of the year’s best novels. (John Harding)