' Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past During a ferocious storm a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage Eliza & her parents take him in But very soon it's clear he has no intention of leaving A century later Mary & Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare Now escaping the memories & 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 life doesn't always work that way A devastating depiction of profound loss sexual longing love & true evil The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless & original of writers