| Title | : | How Much the Heart Can Hold |
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| Author | : | Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla & D.W. Wilson |
| Release | : | 2016-11-03 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | How Much the Heart Can Hold | Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla & D.W. Wilson |
| 'No one has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love: La Douleur Exquise (the pain of unrequited love) Before It Disappears by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (c) 2016 Pragma (enduring love) One More Thing Coming Undone by D.W. Wilson (c) 2016 Philautia (love for oneself) White Wine by Nikesh Shukla (c) 2016 Mania (obsessive love) Magdala, Who Slips Sometimes by Donal Ryan (c) 2016 Storge (familial love) Codas by Carys Bray (c) 2016 Eros (erotic love) The Love Story by Grace McCleen (c) 2016 Agape (love for humanity) The Human World by Bernardine Evaristo (c) 2016 Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. The publication of How Much the Heart Can Hold is heralded by a Sceptre short story competition. The winning story, based on a concept of love, will be published in the paperback edition. (P) 2016 Hodder & Stoughton |
