The Weighing of the Heart by Paul Tudor Owen
Paperback published by Obliterati Press
Following a sudden break-up, Englishman in New York Nick Braeburn takes a room with the elderly Peacock sisters in their lavish Upper East Side apartment, and finds himself increasingly drawn to the priceless piece of Egyptian art on their study wall – and to Lydia, the beautiful Portuguese artist who lives across the roof garden.
But as Nick draws Lydia into a crime he hopes will bring them together, they both begin to unravel, and each find that the other is not quite who they seem.
Paul Tudor Owen’s intriguing debut novel brilliantly evokes the New York of Paul Auster and Joseph O’Neill
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MY REVIEW
I couldn’t let go of this book. The story is set in New York. Nick Braeburn leaves his girlfriend Hannah in their tiny apartment. His friend, Jeff has aunts who have a huge late-nineteenth-century apartment blocks, with an elegant roof top garden over looking Central Park. The peacock sisters agree to let Nick stay. He worked late finishing paintings, photographed them, write descriptions of his work and artistic philosophy and sent emails to galleries and studios and magazines. A Portuguese woman lives across the roof garden who Nick gets to know. A crime is going to happen in this page turning book, and during reading my way through I found out why this book is named The Weighing of the Heart. A brilliant story that I recommend about the art world with a crime committed.
My thanks to
I would like to thank Kelly at Love Books Tours for sending me the paperback The Weighing of the Heart to read and review and for inviting me to take part in the blog tour.
About Author Paul Tudor Owen
Paul Tudor Owen was born in Manchester in 1978 and was educated at the University of Sheffield, the University of Pittsburg, and the London School of Economics.
He began his career as a local newspaper reporter in north west London, and currently works at the Guardian, where he spent three years as deputy head of US news at the paper’s New York office.
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