Where My Heart Used to Beat is a moving and reflective novel by bestselling author Sebastian Faulks that explores a man’s search for meaning across the turbulent twentieth century. On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks — an English doctor who has witnessed both the best and worst of life — confronts his past with the help of his enigmatic host Alexander Pereira. Their journey through memory and history leads into World War II in Italy, a powerful wartime love, idealistic days of the 1960s, and unforgettable returns to the trenches of the Western Front. This literary exploration of love, loss, memory and identity casts a poignant, questioning light on the century that shaped modern life, making it one of Faulks’s most ambitious and deeply affecting works.