The Missing Piece- Catherine Miller Women's literary fiction
A book to take to your heart <3 Keisha is a research student doing her Phd
into Takotsubo cardiomyopathy - broken heart syndrome (a real illness
where part of the heart inflates- thought to be due to stress). Her fifth
subject has just been admitted to hospital where he has been diagnosed
with this. Clive is a spritely 79 year old who got home after being at
his allotment to find his back door open and his wife Nancy on the floor
dead. The thing is that he was found near the allotment and as far as the
police are aware he has never been married. No Nancy ,no wife, no
record. Slowly he realises that some of his memories are not of Nancy
but of himself doing things but he is very sure that she did exist. He talks
to Keisha and they strike up a friendship. Keisha is online dating with
the aid of her friend who runs the cafe where she meets the blind
dates- who generally don’t last more than a few minutes before she
makes her escape. George is the male nurse who is looking after
Clive and coincidentally he arrives as date number 40 on the target
of 100. This is one of those books that you just know from the start
that you are going to go through a whole gamut of emotions. From
smiling to laughing, from going awww to more. A treasure of a read
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After years of studying cardiac medicine, thirty-one-year-old Keisha
The one thing she doesn’t know is how to fall in love. And nor does she want to. The secret her tattoo covers is a reminder that the best way to protect a heart is to never let it feel in the first place…
Seventy-nine-year-old Clive is Subject Five in Keisha’s latest research project. He’s been in love since he was seventeen, ever since he met Nancy at a tea dance. But last night, his beloved wife was killed. Suddenly, he has no one to waltz with. He has woken up in hospital, a widower diagnosed with Broken Heart Syndrome.
These strangers, brought together by a broken heart, must face up to the truth of their pasts. Can Clive teach his new friend that until you’ve loved, you haven’t lived? And can Keisha help him see that it’s never too late for a second chance?
For anyone who has ever felt the pang of heartbreak and feared you might never heal again, this beautiful tale teaches us how to dust ourselves off and seek happiness again. Fans of Jojo Moyes, Josie Silver and Rosie Walsh will love this moving and uplifting story.
When Catherine Miller became a mum to twins, she decided her hands weren’t full enough so wrote a novel with every spare moment she managed to find. By the time the twins were two, Catherine had a two-book deal with Carina UK. Her debut novel, Waiting For You, came out in March 2016.
Catherine was a NHS physiotherapist, but for health reasons she retired early from this career. As she loved her physiotherapy job, she decided if she couldn’t do that she would pursue her writing dream. It took a few years and a couple of babies, but in 2015 she won the Katie Fforde bursary, was a finalist in the London Book Fair Write Stuff Competition and highly commended in Woman magazine’s writing competition. Since then she’s had four novels published.
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