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Heartsick by Jessie Stephens
4.0
Some heartbreaks, even the rejection of your kindergarten sweetheart, can stay with you forever and shape who you become in every relationship after that.
Heart Sick is a book that takes three real life ‘ordinary’ breakups and examines them in detail to try to understand what it really means to have a broken heart.
At one stage the author says, “This book is an attempt to offer a vocabulary. To put words around the unsaid, so they may be used by people who most need them. To position heartbreak as something that belongs to men, too. It belongs to anyone who takes one of the biggest risks we ever take – falling in love.”
I expected to read more about the actual heartbreak, perhaps even the science behind it, but quickly realised Jessie’s right when she says: “What I’ve discovered through the process of working on this book is that you cannot write about heartbreak without first writing about love. The former does not exist without the latter.”
I think I’d call this book a work of narrative non-fiction and I would definitely recommend it. Jessie‘s writing is accessible and engaging and I can’t wait to see what her next book brings us.
Heart Sick is a book that takes three real life ‘ordinary’ breakups and examines them in detail to try to understand what it really means to have a broken heart.
At one stage the author says, “This book is an attempt to offer a vocabulary. To put words around the unsaid, so they may be used by people who most need them. To position heartbreak as something that belongs to men, too. It belongs to anyone who takes one of the biggest risks we ever take – falling in love.”
I expected to read more about the actual heartbreak, perhaps even the science behind it, but quickly realised Jessie’s right when she says: “What I’ve discovered through the process of working on this book is that you cannot write about heartbreak without first writing about love. The former does not exist without the latter.”
I think I’d call this book a work of narrative non-fiction and I would definitely recommend it. Jessie‘s writing is accessible and engaging and I can’t wait to see what her next book brings us.