{"product_id":"pieces-of-me","title":"Pieces of Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2018\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrima Magazine Best Books of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Reading Agency Top Debuts of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. I will never forget it’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTor Udall, author of A Thousand Paper Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmma did not go to war looking for love, but Adam is unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnder the secret shadow of trauma, Emma decides to leave Iraq and joins Adam to settle in Colorado. But isolation and fear find her, once again, when Adam is re-deployed. Torn between a deep fear for Adam’s safety and a desire to be back there herself, Emma copes by throwing herself into a new role mentoring an Iraqi refugee family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut when Adam comes home, he brings the conflict back with him. Emma had considered the possibility that her husband might not come home from war. She had not considered that he might return a stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘An astounding debut, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful book written with emotion and compassion and will stay with me for a long time. It’s characters and story tugged at my heart with every turning page' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNina Pottell, Books Editor, Prima Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Heart-wrenching and heart-warming in equal measure, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me \u003c\/i\u003eis an incredibly moving tale of love and conflict. A compelling and accomplished debut, Natalie writes with the skill and confidence of a writer who's been published for years. I couldn't put it down' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly observed and nuanced look at the war in Iraq and how conflict impacts on the lives of everyone involved' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura Kaye, author of English Animals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I devoured this book, and I feel like I'll carry Emma and Adam with me for a long time. Hart tells this devastating story beautifully' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura Pearson, author of Missing Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e churns with love and rage and hope and terror, as only the best war books can. 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatt Gallagher, author of Youngblood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZoe Lambert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Natalie Hart’s brilliant \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is―like Graham Greene’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/i\u003e―a love story set amid the ruins of war. As a British civilian who meets her American husband in Iraq, the narrator, Emma McLaughlin, is a first-hand witness to the ways armed conflict breaks soldiers and non-combatants alike. Her testimony, and this novel, is unforgettably complex and devastating―as it should be’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Natalie Hart’s vivid novel, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePieces of Me\u003c\/i\u003e, examines the lives of deployed soldiers’ families and displaced Iraqi civilians, eloquently revealing how even the most tightly knit relationships can unravel under the stress of war’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e―\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSiobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Confusion of Languages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Beautiful, moving love story. 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