Alice Oseman

A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman’s acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – soon to be a major Netflix series. From the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless.

This Winter (A Heartstopper novella)

jana 

That's the other thing they don't get. They think eating disorders and mental illnesses can just be fixed at the drop of a hat. They don't understand that it's a process. That it takes time and treatment and effort on bad days and good days.

Victoria

Sara Godoy Higueras

Keira 💫

Charlie and I have discussed at lenght how it's possible for Oliver to be related to us, since he's the literal embodiment of joy, and we're both miserable fucks.

Not that that matters. I don't matter. He matters.

Sometimes I want to just stop trying altogether. Just stop doing anything at all.

Not that that matters. I don’t matter. He matters.

Winter is usually my favourite season, but Charlie’s right – this winter has been the worst. I sit down on the porch, my feet sticking out of the doorframe. There are some fairy lights outside someone’s house across the road, but the more I look at them, the dimmer they seem to get. It doesn’t feel like Christmas.

All I do is mope around sadly and spend extreme amounts of time alone in my room on the Internet

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