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[paul-tudor-owen]

Appearance on the Library Love podcast

Tanya Milligan invited me on to the Library Love podcast for a "Writing Rammy" about my novel The Weighing of the Heart, New York, Ancient Egypt, and unreliable narrators... Give it a listen here. 

And you can buy The Weighing of the Heart here.

[paul-tudor-owen]

The Weighing of the Heart by Paul Tudor Owen review: ‘I found it hard to put down – so I didn’t!’

The Weighing of the Heart just received this fantastic 5-star review from Victoria Smith of sfgirlbybay.com/: "I found it hard to put down -- so I didn't!"

I finished The Weighing of the Heart in one, page-turning sitting. A witty, well-told story of a young Englishman in New York, reinventing himself as an artist along with a cast of characters I adored. It's also a wonderfully vivid and visual love story for the city of New York and I found myself aching for a visit. The writing is so accessible and yet Paul Owen weaves a wildly engaging tale of mystery and romance woven with an underlying theme of Egyptian mythology, which I normally might not be drawn to, but in this case, I couldn't get enough of. Told from the first-person perspective, artist Nick seems at first a bit hapless and charmingly good-natured, however, there's an underlying mistrust you slowly start to sense as you read on. He reminded me a bit of Tom from The Talented Mister Ripley as he rapidly begins to reveal a side of himself you may have only suspected might be a bit sinister. I found it hard to put down -- so I didn't! 

Buy it for 99p here or $1.21 here.

And you can still vote for The Weighing of the Heart for the People's Book Prize 2020 here.