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The Heart Is a Star

By: Megan Rogers
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
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Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and thoroughly enjoyable—The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell.

Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself.

But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She's determined to finally confront her mother—and find out what really happened to her father—and lay some demons to rest.

The Heart is a Star is an engrossing, lyrical and powerfully absorbing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of midlife; about the ways in which we navigate an intricate, complicated world; and about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us.

"A riveting read; deeply, compellingly human … It's heart-wrenching, and in the end, completely, beautifully, liberating. I couldn't put it down."—Lisa Cron, NYT bestselling author of Wired for Story

©2025 Megan Rogers (P)2025 Recorded Books
Family Life Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction

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