Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award
Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2018
Prima Magazine Best Books of the Year
The Reading Agency Top Debuts of 2018'An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how it's often left to the women to pick up the pieces. The way Hart has made a mosaic of different women's experiences, be they British, American or Iraqi, is profoundly moving.Pieces of Meis a love story that will leave you in tatters and yet there is an enduring sense of women making, mending and creating that gives this book a radiance. I will never forget it'
-Tor Udall, author of A Thousand Paper BirdsEmma did not go to war looking for love, but Adam is unlike any other.Under the secret shadow of trauma, Emma decides to leave Iraq and joins Adam to settle in Colorado. But isolation and fear find her, once again, when Adam is re-deployed. Torn between a deep fear for Adam's safety and a desire to be back there herself, Emma copes by throwing herself into a new role mentoring an Iraqi refugee family.But when Adam comes home, he brings the conflict back with him. Emma had considered the possibility that her husband might not come home from war. She had not considered that he might return a stranger.