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taking her heart with him
Each keeps company with the restless beasts of Paris' Menagerie
to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure
Justin Alastair
Violets Abdulrazak Gurnah taking her heart with himAn astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World WarA young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of World War Two. Her pregnancy is over and she is no longer able to conceive. With her husband deployed in Burma and her friends caught up in transitory love affairs, she must find a way to put herself back together. In a small, watchful town in the Welsh valleys, another Violet contemplates the