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Heart the Lover

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8.4

Lily King・・Ended

Updated: September 30, 2025

Content length: 256 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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Synopsis

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love You knew I’d write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.

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✨ Editor’s Crush — Reasons You’ll Love It

A decades-spanning first-love story
From wild college nights to the quiet reckoning of middle age, it shows how one electrifying first love leaves a mark on a whole life.
More than a love triangle, it’s about desire, friendship & forgiveness
What starts as an intense campus triangle slowly becomes a tender story about who we become, what we owe each other, and how we forgive.
For fans of Writers & Lovers — familiar world, fresh heartbreak
Set in the same universe and linked by a “delightful connective thread,” it deepens the emotional world that made Writers & Lovers so beloved, but completely stands alone.
Lily King’s signature: witty, warm, and piercingly honest
Critics praise her as “one of our great literary treasures,” with writing that’s vivid, wise, and emotionally precise—you laugh, then suddenly you’re aching.
Perfect for readers who love bookish, emotionally intelligent fiction
The narrator is a writer who understands love stories and quietly dissects the ones we tell and the ones we live—ideal for anyone who underlines sentences and savors subtext.