Paper Heart
- Author Cecelia Ahern
- Narrator Eileen Walsh
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 28 August 2025
- Run Time 10 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025!
Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger.
For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room.
Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined.
And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there’s someone waiting for her. If she can find the courage to open her heart.
Pip never stopped dreaming, but now it’s time for her to live – and maybe even to fall in love.
'A lovely, transportive, deeply felt story. My heart grows a bit bigger each time I read a Cecelia Ahern book' Karin Slaughter
'An immersive, sometimes heartbreaking, yet ultimately uplifting rollercoaster read. Her best yet' Patricia Scanlan
‘A tender, moving story about second chances and the quiet courage it takes to hope again’ Louise O’Neill
Cecelia Ahern's book 'In a Thousand Different Ways' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-10
Critics Review
Praise for Paper Heart:
n‘A tender, moving story about second chances and the quiet courage it takes to hope again’ Louise O’Neill
n'Cecelia Ahern brings you the story you need most, exactly when you need it, and this is a must read. Beautiful, heart wrenching, a soaring triumph of a book' Sam Blake
n'A lovely, transportive, deeply felt story. My heart grows a bit bigger each time I read a Cecelia Ahern book' Karin Slaughter
n'No one squidges your heart the way Cecelia Ahern does with her deeply moving novels' Steph McGovern
n'An immersive, sometimes heartbreaking, yet ultimately uplifting rollercoaster read. Her best yet' Patricia Scanlan
n‘There is a fairy tale quality to Paper Heart, a story that Cecelia’s legions of fans will delight in’ Ciara Geraghty
n‘Full of hope and healing…Cecelia Ahern still has the power to burrow deep into readers’ hearts’ i Paper
n‘Moving and beautiful’ Woman and Home
nAcclaim for Cecelia Ahern:
n‘Wonderful storytelling, I was hooked from the first page. Sharp, relatable, and poignant – a joy’ ANDREA MARA
n‘Outstanding… I simply couldn’t stop reading. One of the two or three best novels I’ve read this year and without question the best book I’ve ever read by Cecelia' JOHN BOYNE
n'A terrific story! It had me completely gripped from the very first page' KARIN SLAUGHTER
n‘Vivid, beautiful and deeply, darkly atmospheric…This is a novel that will break your heart in the best way possible; it is Cecelia Ahern at the height of her powers' SARAH CROSSAN
n'An emotional rollercoaster of a book … will grab you by the heart and not let you go until the very last gripping word' SAM BLAKE
n‘Beautiful, moving and unexpected, In a Thousand Different ways is an unforgettable story. This is Cecelia Ahern at her very best’ LOUISE O'NEILL
n‘Utterly wonderful … Cecelia Ahern is a master storyteller at the absolute peak of her powers' CLARE POOLEY
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