Nick Hern Books Heart Wall

'It's funny what people do and what they tell. We're all hiding bits of ourselves. The bits we're not proud of. I can see that now.' It's Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in a year.Drinks are poured and karaoke is starting, but her return stirs something that has been crackling underneath the noise. Haunted by grief, Franky's family quietly unravel around her, and buried secrets leak through the cracks in every room.A bittersweet, tender exploration of the long trail of grief and the fickleness of memory, Kit Withington's play Heart Wall asks where we go when home has become somewhere you don't know.It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Katie Greenall.