The Heart Of The Matter

by Graham Greene
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'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly-etched and moving portraits of real human beings' V.S. Pritchett, The Times

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

Editorial Reviews

"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings" - V. S. Pritchett, The Times

"Greene was a master of characterisation and this book is no exception" - chosen for The Hit List by Camden Lock Books, Independent on Sunday

"I first read [The Heart of the Matter] when my youngest daughter was reading Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness for her A-levels. I'm not a great Conrad fan and I think The Heart Of The Matter is incomparably better. For a Catholic like me it stirs up all the usual concerns about guilt but is really gripping." - Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong, Express

"Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ordinary troubles, and make them exciting to read about" - Shirley Hazzard, Guardian

"The Heart of the Matter is a great story" - Michael Caine, Evening Standard

"Primarily a novel about the moral consequences of religious belief, but it is almost as importantly a novel about colonialism" - Independent

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