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Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart review – a woman in fragments

Shortlisted for the Costa debut novel award, this is a memorable, cohesive story of a fractured life

Most of us show different versions of ourselves to lovers, colleagues, friends. Emma, in Hart’s Costa-shortlisted debut novel, is more fragmented than most. She is a Brit living in America, thanks to her US soldier husband, whom she met in a military compound in Iraq.

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