Heartbreaker

‘Heartbreaker is an incandescent flare of a novel – acrobatic, devastating, and wickedly funny. It is effortlessly sly and fresh in its language, and I loved it’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure

‘Heartbreaker totally bewitched me. I love its outlandishness – its sizzling energy – the bright, fierce music in every sentence’ Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

‘A fierce exploration of memory and zeitgeist … Heartbreaker is a darkly comedic weirdo of a book that pulls the string of nostalgia from one side while unravelling it from the other’ The Paris Review

‘I read My Absolute Darling and discovered a transcendent teenage narrator in the form of Turtle Alveston. Pony Darlene Fontaine is a match for Turtle – an ordinary teenage girl in a wholly extraordinary world. Her voice will echo in your head for months – even years – to come’ Sam Baker, The Pool

‘This is a book like no other. It's eerie, it's cult-y, it's so very exciting, and I never wanted it to end’ Buzzfeed, Best Books of Fall 2018

‘Disturbed, seductive, and thrilling’ i-D

‘Behold the virtuosity of Heartbreaker! Claudia Dey has a perfect ear and the sharpest eye … devastating, unsparing and unforgettable’ Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows

‘A whole-cloth, word-for-word triumph of imagination’ Publishers Weekly

‘This book gave me chills all the way through. It is deeply original – in its wildness, its structure, its wisdom, and its world. I floated in the perfection of its ending. I loved this novel's shining sensitivity. I loved its every page’ Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?

‘Beautiful … A perfect balancing act of dark and light’
Claire Cameron, author of The Bear

‘A dark star of a book, glittering with mordant humour and astonishing, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Dey’s wild brain’ Lauren Groff