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Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

There Your Heart Lies

By Mary Gordon

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Review of ‘There Your Heart Lies’

Mary Gordon has been writing compelling books about faith, love and family for four decades. In There Your Heart Lies, her eighth novel, she examines the ways political idealism and religious fanaticism shape the choices of a privileged but naive Catholic woman in the mid-20th century.

At 19, Marian Taylor breaks with her wealthy New…

Interview with Mary Gordon

In her latest novel, Mary Gordon explores faith, family and war through dual narratives: that of a woman who joins the forces fighting Franco in late-1930s Spain, and of her granddaughter in 2009. There Your Heart Lies displays tremendous historical depth and emotional resonance.


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