The Book Club: Heart the Lover by Lily King

This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle are discussing Heart the Lover by American author Lily King. The story follows ‘Jordan’, a bright, ambitious college student who finds herself caught up in a complicated love triangle, with best friends and fellow students Sam and Yash. Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. The next book club pick is A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello. The group will be discussing it in April. Lily King writing about the teenage love that "changed her life" in Vogue: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode is 23:07 long.

This episode was published on Mar 1, 2026.

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