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The True Heart
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476109
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99

The True Heart

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1 June 2021
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4 Jan 2021
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A love story set in Victorian England by one of the most original writers of the twentieth century

Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey's quest to be reunited, a quest that will take her through every layer of Victorian society...
  • Published: 1 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241476109
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Praise for The True Heart

The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... though entirely without sentimentality, her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure

Sarah Waters

One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers

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