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The Stopped Heart

Full title: The Stopped Heart
ISBN: 9780224102490
ISBN 10: 0224102494
Authors: Julie Myerson
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2016

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Synopsis

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 Their Old London Life, 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 In The Stopped Heart, The Past Never Dies. Mary And Graham Have Experienced Every Parent's Worst Nightmare. Now, Escaping Their Old London Life, The Memories And The Headlines, They Have Found A Quiet, Idyllic New Life In Suffolk. A Small Cottage, With A Beautiful Garden -- And Down At The Bottom Of The Garden, An Old Apple Shed And An Ancient Fallen Tree Trunk: A Little Patch Of Wilderness. The Perfect Place To Forget. To Move On. But They Don't Know What Happened By That Apple Shed More Than A Hundred Years Ago. They Don't Know Eliza's Story, Or What Happened When A Stranger Called James Dix Appeared In Her Garden One Stormy Night. Some Memories Are Too Powerful To Live Only In The Past. In The Stopped Heart, The Past Is Still Happening. Julie Myerson.