Strange Heart Beating

Author(s): Eli Goldstone

Novel

Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together. A darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender.


Product Information

A witty and profound debut novel about a sudden death and a marriage abruptly sundered, that takes a grieving widower from London to Latvia in search of the truth about his late wife

ELI GOLDSTONE lives in London and is a graduate of the City University Creative Writing (Novels) MA. She is the former prose editor of Cadaverine.

General Fields

  • : 9781783783496
  • : Granta Books
  • : 0.204
  • : April 2017
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : March 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eli Goldstone
  • : Paperback
  • : Jun-17
  • : English
  • : 813
  • : 208