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‘Devastating and wickedly funny … I loved it’ Sophie Mackintosh’ ‘A dark star of a book’ Lauren Groff ‘I loved its every page’ Sheila Heti It’s 1985 in The Territory and it always will be. It’s so cold you can’t feel your feet and from here the outside world is just a dream, but two humans and one animal will show us the way. They’re each searching for someone, a woman who washed up on the shores of this far-flung town and then disappeared. To find her they will have to look deep into the darkness that lies at the edge of love. Heartbreaker is an astounding feat of imagination with its own riotous rhythm and the resounding message that humanity can be found in the wildest of places.

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`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. It convinced me that the deepest of human (and animal) urges is the pull to find one's true home - which lies in the hearts of just a few others. 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 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 `Heartbreaker is 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 `A thrillingly fun and original novel' RIVKA GALCHEN author of Little Labours `A totally compulsive, singular and wild read' FEIST

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Claudia Dey is a novelist, playwright and columnist. Her plays have been produced internationally and include Beaver, Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. Her debut novel, Stunt, was chosen by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire as a Best Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Dey lives in Toronto.

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