Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed novels Heft, recently optioned as a feature film, and The Unseen World, which was optioned for television. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia.
A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale ... This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind. * O, The Oprah Magazine * Full of surprises and love and healing, Heft is the most unsentimental sentimental journey you will read this year. * The Times * Heft is written with a dry wit and the characters are hugely likeable … It’s moving and tragic too. * Daily Mail * Nuanced and poignant… each of the three acutely written principals of Moore’s second novel hooks the reader in a heartbeat. Heft is an understated yet intensely emotional work. * Financial Times * A gentle fiction, as big-hearted as it’s star is heavy. * Vogue *