The Spoiled Heart
A novel
From the two-time Booker Prize nominee, a brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from “bold storyteller” (The New Yorker)
“The Spoiled Heart confirms Sunjeev Sahota's position as one of our essential novelists.” —Karan Mahajan, author of the National Book Award Finalist The Association of Small Bombs
“Will consume any reader who picks it up.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fiction of 2024
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She’s returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and—though she’s strangely guarded—Nayan can’t help but be drawn to her. He hasn’t risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident…
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April 15, 2025Sunjeev Sahota is the author of China Room, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature; and Ours Are the Streets. He lives in Sheffield, England, with his family.