A masterpiecea terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy -- Toby Clements Sunday Telegraph Compelling...profoundly moving -- Leyla Sanai The Independent on Sunday A pleasure from start to finishWHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT is that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge. -- Alexander Larman Sunday Express There is everything here: love, loss, death, war, history, memory, ideas, travel, friendship, rivalry, chance and sex.