![]() ![]() For me, it became about me, as much as it was about Annie. I don’t know if this book will mean as much to you as it did to me. They say the best books are the ones that make you feel, that resonate, that reach out beyond their pages to you. It’s stirred up all these thoughts within me and even though I was desperate to keep reading it and just get on with it, I would dip in and out and then wander around with my thoughts for ages before repeating the process. The truth of it is that this book was unstitching me, tugging at things I thought I’d dealt with and resonating with me to the point of distraction. But none of these things are why it was taking me so long. Yet, I regularly work weeks like this and my whole life is about juggling, so why, with a book I was enjoying so much, was it taking me so long to read? I was definitely lingering over it and taking my time with it, because despite reading like a novel, it was still non-fiction and that, for some reason, always slows my reading down by at least twenty-five percent, at a minimum. I told myself it was because the book was almost four hundred pages long and I had been reading it in a week where I was working almost 38 hours and juggling way too many balls at once. It actually took me more than a week to read Notes on Heartbreak, which is quite a long time for me. Annie Lord can write, wow, can she ever, and this book…well, it’s affected me more than I could have ever anticipated. To lay yourself open like this, it’s entirely impressive, and to do so with such introspection and intelligence as well. It reads like a novel, which was intuitively appealing to me, at times giving me Bridget Jones feels yet knowing all the while that, unlike Bridget Jones Diary, this was all true, not made up, and all the more powerful for it. It’s a memoir, I guess, which is usually a hard no from me, but then it doesn’t read like a memoir, and it doesn’t follow the usual formula for memoirs either, and in some ways, it also nudges into self-help without actually being a self-help book. Notes on Heartbreak is exactly one of these. ![]() I know a lot of reviewers who don’t like this, but for me, many of these books have turned out to be the absolute best of reads. Books that wouldn’t have even been on my radar. ![]() One of the best things about being a book reviewer is receiving books from publishers that I would not normally have chosen for myself. Published by Hachette Australia – Trapeze It’s a book about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful, the beautiful and the messy. ![]() It is an unflinchingly honest yet lyrical meditation on the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love that will resonate with anyone who has ever nursed a broken heart. This stunning exploration of love and heartbreak from cult journalist and Vogue columnist Annie Lord, is so much more than a book about one singular break-up. Alongside her memories, Annie charts her attempts to move on, from disastrous rebound sex to sending ill-advised nudes, stalking her ex’s new girlfriend on Instagram and the sharp indignity of being ghosted. Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse, starting with a devastating and unexpected break-up.Īs Annie Lord reels from a broken heart, her stunning memoir revisits the past, from the moment she first fell in love, the shared in-jokes and intertwining of a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the slow erosion of a bond five years in the making. ![]()
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