Where the Hearts Beat · Book One
Two worlds. One photograph. A distance that refuses to do its job.
When fiercely independent Helen-Rita Nakintu leaves Uganda for Cambridge, the last person she expects to follow her into memory is Joe Benjamin Aldgate—the disciplined RAF officer behind a camera at Entebbe.
A novel by Sanyu Nannono
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Choose a thread. Each one reveals a different pulse beneath the same sky.
The crossing
A scholarship pulls Helen from Uganda toward a future she did not choose. At Entebbe, Joe raises his camera and meets the one woman who refuses to be neatly framed. One photograph becomes two. The stranger becomes impossible to dismiss.
Some meetings end. Others begin long before either person admits it.
From early readers
I have really enjoyed reading F.A.L.L.i.N.G.—such great humour and sheer genius twists. Naye, is there a girl as CRAZY as Helen? She kept me from sleeping and was in my dreams—simply horrified as a mom. 👍🏾❤️❤️👏🏿
“I loved how the story grew darker and more dramatic. It gave the novel real depth—far beyond a romance between two people. The way the theme of ‘falling’ runs through the story is so clever, with threads from earlier in the book returning and coming full circle.”
“That might have been the most interesting first-meeting dialogue I've read.”
“Great build-up of tension.”
“Crafty and quick on her feet.” —about Helen
“Wait, wait, wait—is she ditching her flight to Cambridge!?”
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