Heart Broke in

A RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE''S ACT OF LOVERitchie Shepherd aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies. Gallingly his sister Bec a scientist developing a crucial vaccine is as addicted to truth-telling as Ritchie is to falsehood. Ritchie relies on her certitude even as he seethes with resentment. A devastating chain of events is set into motion when Bec tells her fiancé Val a powerful tabloid editor that she can''t bring herself to marry him after all. Furious he sets into motion an elaborate revenge plot intended to destroy Bec by exposing the people who are close to her.A bighearted epic in the manner of Tolstoy James Meek''s The Heart Broke In is also as shrewd starkly funny and of-the-moment as Jonathan Franzen''s Freedom or Jeffrey Eugenides''s The Marriage Plot. Most of all it is a staggeringly good read fiction with the reverberating resonance of truth.