Set in the English countryside Open Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage
boys meet and transform each other's lives. 'It's a novel about us' KAVEH AKBAR 'Hewitt
writes with such tenderness and grace' ANNE ENRIGHT On the cusp of adulthood James dreams of
another life far away from his small village. Beholden to the expectations of home and family
his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy tenderness and sex - threatens to unravel his shy
exterior. Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome charismatic and impulsive he has been
sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger
yet underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own. As the seasons pass and the
pair form an ever-changing bond James falls into a terrifying first love that will transform
his life forever. Enthralling and richly immersive Open Heaven is a debut novel about the
freedom of youth the sacrifices of friendship and the possibilities of love in all its forms.
'A beautiful novel about how a first love can shape a whole life' HELEN MACDONALD ' Open
Heaven does what the very best coming of age stories do' MICHAEL MAGEE 'Gorgeous...thrums
with hidden love and concealed truths' ANDREW McMILLAN 'Intensely conjured...as bittersweet
and elegiac as birdsong' PATRICK GALE
