{"title":"Natalie Hart","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pieces-of-me-book-natalie-hart-9781787198036","title":"Pieces of Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2018\u003cbr\u003e Prima Magazine Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e The Reading Agency Top Debuts of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how it''s often left to the women to pick up the pieces. The way Hart has made a mosaic of different women''s experiences, be they British, American or Iraqi, is profoundly moving. \u003ci\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story that will leave you in tatters and yet there is an enduring sense of women making, mending and creating that gives this book a radiance. 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Natalie Hart writes like a born storyteller, and she uses that gift here to explore how the Iraq War lingers in the dark corners of souls desperate to move on from it. Readers are in for a ride''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eMatt Gallagher, author of Youngblood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003ci\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003eis a quietly powerful exploration of the complex effects of the Iraq war...The novel builds in power and speaks authoritatively on the polarisation of the lives changed forever by conflict''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eZoe Lambert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Natalie Hart''s brilliant \u003ci\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003eis--like Graham Greene''s \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/i\u003e--a love story set amid the ruins of war. 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