Where My Heart Used to Beat

“A novel that artfully mixes memory and desire as a World War II veteran accesses painful memories of a wartime romance” from the author of The Seventh Son ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). London, 1980. Robert Hendricks, an established psychiatrist and author, has so bottled up memories of his own wartime past that he is nearly sunk into a life of aloneness and depression. Out of the blue, a baffling letter arrives from one Dr. Alexander Pereira, a neurologist and a World War I veteran who cl