They Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Written by David Savill

Narrated by Malk Williams

In 1994, Marko Novak's world is torn apart by the death of his best friend - Kemal Lekic; a soldier in the Bosnian war. After the funeral, Marko flees to England, hoping to put his broken homeland behind him. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a Bosnian man with blood on his hands. What no-one can know is that a disaster as destructive as war is approaching… a disaster that will connect the fates of Marko and Anya across the years and continents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Jun 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781510033306

David Savill

In the last year of the Bosnian war, David lived as a teacher and a student among the refugees of Srebrenica, helping to organise a summer university for students in the safe-haven of Tuzla. Over the past fifteen years he has returned to Bosnia several times. Tuzla, and the real story of its 'Youth Day' massacre, became the inspiration for the fictional town of Stovnik. In an eight-year career as a BBC Current Affairs journalist, David worked on Panorama, This World, Real Story, World at One and PM. In 2004, he arrived on the beaches of Phuket two days after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. He spent the next six months in Thailand and Sri Lanka, where he made two documentaries about the aftermath of the disaster. David now has two children and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Salford in Manchester. davidsavill.com / @SavillDavid