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Zoe Heller
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Zoë Heller is an English journalist and novelist, author of three novels including Notes on a Scandal and The Believers, living in New York City.
Biography
Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist resident in New York City. She has published three novels: Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), and The Believers (2008).
Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was adapted for a feature film in 2006. Heller's work spans journalism and fiction and often engages personal and moral dilemmas within contemporary settings. The Believers, among her novels, follows a family confronted by a long-hidden secret and traces characters negotiating faith, identity, addiction and relationships, described in its notices as a tragic, comic family story that explores large ideas with compassion.
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Books by Zoe Heller
The Believers
The Believers follows the Litvinoff family after patriarch Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke and a revealing secret forces the family to reexamine forty years of marriage and belief. As each member — including Rosa, Karla and Lenny — confronts commitments, love, addiction and doubt, they must decide what, if anything, they still believe in.