Half a Heart debuted and peaked at #8 in the UK charts, but fell to #29 the next week. The song spent a total of six weeks in the UK top 75, re-entering twice. The single had sales of approximately 38,000 units. Half a Heart "Half a Heart" is a song by H & Claire, which became their second hit single in 2002. The song peaked at #8 in the UK Singles Charts and spent a total of 6 weeks in the British charts. "Together", one of the B-side songs, was co-written by Ian ("H") and Take That member Gary Barlow. The video
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing In a "New York Times" review, Joshua Cohen described the book as being "in all respects, a heresy — which is to say, Lord above, it’s a future classic." Reviewing the novel for "The Guardian", Anne Enright wrote that it "is hard to read for the best reasons: everything about it is intense and difficult and hard-won." The novel won several awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The Guardian Book Club featured the novel in 2016, and