They Are Trying To Break Your Heart, a new novel by David Savill, MA Creative Writing lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham has been chosen by NetGalley as their book of the month for April.
NetGalley provides the review industry with previews of new titles and consideration by the service is highly sought after among publishers.
NetGalley described the novel as a work of ‘rare grace and subtlety…a dark horse for many of the literary prizes this coming year’, and ‘everything you hope for in a modern novel,’ going on to suggest the book, ‘introduces a novelist of huge talent’.
David Savill said: "I wrote the book while setting up the St Mary’s First Novel MA, and a lot of what I learned about novel writing while teaching the course went into it."
NetGalley described the novel as a work of ‘rare grace and subtlety…a dark horse for many of the literary prizes this coming year’, and ‘everything you hope for in a modern novel,’ going on to suggest the book, ‘introduces a novelist of huge talent’.
David Savill said: "I wrote the book while setting up the St Mary’s First Novel MA, and a lot of what I learned about novel writing while teaching the course went into it."Media enquiries
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