Annie Lord

The Must-Read Book of the Summer

Notes on Heartbreak

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a book about one single break-up

'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality.' Dolly Alderton

'Painful while it sloughs away the dead romantic ideals, leaving you cleansed, reborn and gorgeously satisfied.' Pandora Sykes

'A beautiful tender messy brilliant generous open-hearted book.' Emma Gannon

This is a love story told in reverse. It's about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful. The beautiful and the messy.

Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord 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.

It is an unflinchingly honest reminder of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love that will resonate with anyone that has ever nursed a broken heart.

'An electrifying debut.' Caroline O'Donoghue

'Annie Lord tells us a story at once both specific and universal.' Shon Faye

Notes on a heartbreak but this is obviously just whining about a man who’s obviously a red flag.

I was ecstatic when I first heard about this book because I thought this is going to be something like Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. When I first started into it, I was intrigued but then I started to get bored. In the first few pages, Annie described Joe and I’m like this isn’t absolutely the guy you’re going to cry about in the next few pages and it just gets worse and worse. I totally get it, falling for a red flag guy and then you break up and now you’re missing him and want to get back together with him— we’ve all been there. What I honestly needed more are insights about her experience in recovering from a heartbreak or a bad breakup but sadly, I don’t think I have found anything about those here.

Giving it 1.5 stars because there are so many times I wanted to DNF. Why is this too long? Honestly, this could’ve been shorter. I wanted to like this as much as I wanted to, however it just annoyed me thus making me skim a lot of pages. Maybe someday I’ll try to reread this again but maybe never again too.

Notes on a heartbreak but this is obviously just whining about a man who’s obviously a red flag.

I was ecstatic when I first heard about this book because I thought this is going to be something like Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. When I first started into it, I was intrigued but then I started to get bored. In the first few pages, Annie described Joe and I’m like this isn’t absolutely the guy you’re going to cry about in the next few pages and it just gets worse and worse. I totally get it, falling for a red flag guy and then you break up and now you’re missing him and want to get back together with him— we’ve all been there. What I honestly needed more are insights about her experience in recovering from a heartbreak or a bad breakup but sadly, I don’t think I have found anything about those here.

Giving it 1.5 stars because there are so many times I wanted to DNF. Why is this too long? Honestly, this could’ve been shorter. I wanted to like this as much as I wanted to, however it just annoyed me thus making me skim a lot of pages. Maybe someday I’ll try to reread this again but maybe never again too.

Notes on Heartbreak The Must-Read Book of the Summer

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