Heart Is a Star

By Megan Rogers

Book Overview

Dive into the heart of Australia with this blockbuster debut as one woman confronts her past, family secrets, and her own identity amid the chaos of midlife, offering a poignant exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery.

Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anesthesiologist, 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 calls 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771683902
• ISBN13: 9781771683906
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Central Avenue
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The truth staring back at you!

Australia. Mother-Daughter. Strained Relationships. Affairs. Twists. Complexity. Trigger warnings. I truly adored this book. The prose, the many life lessons, the well-developed characters, the many versions of pain, the truth staring back at us. All of it, soul-quenching. This is definitely not a light read, it forces you to go deeper. And deeper you should wander. I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to cozy up to this book.