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Heartsick: Three Stories About Love and Loss, and What Happens in Between by Jessie Stephens
5.0
‘Where does all the love go, he asks himself, when there’s nowhere to put it?’
This is my top book so far for 2021. Such a beautifully written narrative non-fiction that perfectly depicts the entire process of heartbreak. The first half of the book was so warm, learning about the three relationships and how they blossomed and the second half so utterly heartbreaking. These stories don’t try to find hope or joy in the pain of a relationship breakup, but rather feeling it all, sitting in the pain and recognising the physical and mental sickness one goes through after a terrible break up. The way Jessie writes about heartbreak is all too relatable - no one has ever described the true pain of heartbreak in the way that she has. Absolutely beautiful.
This is my top book so far for 2021. Such a beautifully written narrative non-fiction that perfectly depicts the entire process of heartbreak. The first half of the book was so warm, learning about the three relationships and how they blossomed and the second half so utterly heartbreaking. These stories don’t try to find hope or joy in the pain of a relationship breakup, but rather feeling it all, sitting in the pain and recognising the physical and mental sickness one goes through after a terrible break up. The way Jessie writes about heartbreak is all too relatable - no one has ever described the true pain of heartbreak in the way that she has. Absolutely beautiful.