James Meek's new novel has all the urgent readability of his previous work combined with a wide-ranging vision of social and personal responsibility that's very rare in current fiction. I suppose we could call it a moral thriller. Whatever we call it, I was enormously impressed.

Philip Pullman

Addictive . . . Meek is a novelist of Dostoevskyan intensity and seriousness . . . Terrific . . . You have to admire the scope and ambition of this operatic saga

Guardian

Intelligent, compelling and epic in scale

Woman & Home

Page-turning and absorbing
Victoria Moore

Daily Mail

James Meek is Britain's answer to Don DeLillo
Brian Morton

Independent

In a literary culture that rewards narrow little books by sixtysomething white men about what it's like to be a sixtysomething white man, Meek's range, humour and boldness are a joy
Louise Doughty

Observer

Set in the near future, [Meek's] sinister media underworld hits on the zeitgeist . . . the characterisation is affectionate and the story is gripping

We Love This Book

An enjoyable, thought-provoking read, going beyond satire to throw the questions back to the reader
Andrea Mullaney

Scotland on Sunday

This is a big juicy slab of a book, as thrilling and nourishing as a Victorian three-parter . . . Meek constantly shift's the reader's own moral foundations, as we try to decide who is doing right and wrong and why and how
Whynn Weldon

Spectator

The Heart Broke In is a realistic slice of life at the bench, reflect­ing both the admirable and the unflattering qualities of scientists

Nature Magazine