Notes on Heartbreak
A Memoir
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“Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking . . . told with stunning originality. Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent.” ―Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love
“An electrifying debut.” ―Caroline O'Donoghue, author of The Rachel Incident
With the incisive wit and depth of Dolly Alderton and Sally Rooney, a fierce, funny, and unflinching memoir about the exhilaration of love and the pain of its ending, from an acclaimed British Vogue writer.
You never forget your first love—or your first true heartbreak. Annie Lord is going through a devastating breakup after a five-year relationship with someone she thought she’d be with forever. Try as she might, she can’t stop reliving the past, obsessively examining every moment that led to this point.
When she’s not having disastrous rebound sex or stalking her ex on Instagram, Annie puts every moment of their history under a microscope, trying to understand where things went wrong and why. The answers, when they come, will surprise her as much as anyone.
Notes on Heartbreak is an engrossing and emotionally evocative account of love and loss that will resonate with anyone who has ever nursed a broken heart, been in a codependent relationship, or has come to understand that romantic partnerships are infinitely more complex than what we experience in the moment. It is a deeply personal and insightful book about the best and worst of love and how it can upend our lives: the euphoria and the desolation, the beauty and the cruelty.
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British Vogue dating columnist Lord debuts with a raw and riveting take on love, loss, and moving on. In her mid-20s, Lord was gobsmacked when Joe, her first love and boyfriend of five years, abruptly broke up with her after sharing a meal with her family. Afterward, she cycled through the stages of grief, trying to rebound with other guys before sleeping with Joe again, to the bafflement of her friends. As Lord details her jagged path to stability and newfound confidence, she weaves in vivid memories of her and Joe's relationship, from its beginnings in the library of Newcastle University to their earliest sexual experiences together. Though the subject matter is familiar, Lord's sharp observations (she laments that her mental catalog of Joe's body consists only of "memories of my memories of his skin, his eyelids, his moles—far more a reflection of myself than of him") and literary allusions (she quotes from Anne Carson's poem "The Glass Essay" throughout, to powerful effect) ensure that this stands apart from similar accounts. The result is a smart, generous look at emotional devastation and recovery that will steal readers' hearts.
