The Heart Is A StarAbsorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable The Heart Is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell. Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. Most particularly, she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But