I read books like Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. So I decided that until I was ready to write again, I would consume other people’s stories about relationships, grief and recovery from grief. You know that phase? Where you subsist on a diet of cornflakes and cheap wine and your sole focus is to just drag your body through each day intact? Yeah. The point is that I was struggling to write about a relationship because I had just entered that phase of the breakup where the very concept of love feels at best absurd and, at worst, too excruciating to even think about. It’s a love story in reverse, you see, but we’ll come back to that. At the time, I was working on my own book, called Out of Love, which just so happens to be about a couple who fall in love and then break up.ĭon’t worry, that’s not a spoiler they break up in the first chapter and meet one another in the end. Several years ago, whilst going through a particularly awful breakup, I decided to read Heartburn by Nora Ephron.
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