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Hey, Zoey

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What to expect

'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy

'Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable' Erin Kelly

'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex; it makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister

A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime.

Imagine discovering an animatronic sex doll hidden in the garage. What would you do?

Dolores initially does nothing. She assumes the doll belongs to her husband, David, and their relationship is already strained. They’re not young, they’re not old; they have no children, they keep up with the markers of being middle class and Dolores is well versed in keeping men’s secrets.

But then, Dolores and Zoey start to talk ...What surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected, with consequences for all of the relationships in her life, especially her relationship to herself.

Hey, Zoey is a propulsive story of love, family, and trauma in our tech-buffered age of alienation, as strange as it is familiar.


'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn

'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen

'One of our most inventive writers, Sarah Crossan, blends comedy, drama and heartbreak in a novel that is as surprising as it is memorable' John Boyne

Critics Review

  • Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny, Sarah Crossan’s Hey, Zoey explores the impossibility of connection, and the things we hide from ourselves and the people we love

    SARAH DUNN, bestselling author of The Arrangement
  • Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable. Hey, Zoey is a searing novel about true intimacy and the things humans will do to protect themselves from it. You’ve never read anything quite like it, and only Sarah Crossan could have written it

    ERIN KELLY, million-copy bestselling author of The Skeleton Key and Watch Her Fall
  • Examining how humanity can be found in unexpected places, one of our most inventive writers, Sarah Crossan, blends comedy, drama and heartbreak in a novel that is as surprising as it is memorable

    JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Hey, Zoey is unique, refreshing and revelatory. Sarah Crossan excels at subtle subversion, marrying delicious dark wit with deep empathy to produce work that reads the zeitgeist perfectly. This stylish, provocative novel isn’t afraid to push the bruise!

    HELEN CULLEN, author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • This darkly funny modern love story had me gripped all the way from its compelling opening to its unexpectedly moving and worrying conclusion. Hey, Zoey offers a sharp and sometimes shocking exploration of relationships between friends, lovers and family. It’s intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex; it makes you think, and it makes you feel

    LESLEY GLAISTER, author of Little Egypt
  • Hey, Zoey is a flight of the imagination mapping the twilight zone of broken love. Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting, Crossan is elegantly devastating in her ability to evoke our tender, unguarded selves

    CLAIRE KILROY, author of Solider Sailor

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