Heartsick: Three Stories about Love, Pain, and What Happens in Between by Jessie Stephens

Heartsick: Three Stories about Love, Pain, and What Happens in Between

Jessie Stephens

336 pages • first pub 2021 (view editions)

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This book speaks to readers who crave the catharsis of witnessing real-life unravelings—three meticulously rendered true stories of ordinary people blindsided by love’s collapse and left to sift through the wreckage for whatever fragile self-knowledge can be salvaged.

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Claire has returned from London to the dust and familiarity of her childhood home, only to realise something is wrong with her partner Maggie.Patrick is a lonely uni student, until he meets Caitlin - but does she feel as connected as he does? Ana ...

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3.89
based on 789 reviews

Moods

emotional: 89%

reflective: 70%

sad: 68%

hopeful: 29%

challenging: 16%

inspiring: 14%

dark: 9%

informative: 8%

funny: 7%

lighthearted: 3%

tense: 3%

adventurous: 1%

Pace

18% of readers chose fast
64% of readers chose medium
17% of readers chose slow
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