Notes on Heartbreak

With the sharp wit and emotional intelligence of Dolly Alderton and Sally Rooney, this fierce, funny, and unsparing memoir explores the dizzying highs of love and the devastation of its end, from an acclaimed British Vogue writer.

You never forget your first love — or your first real heartbreak. After the collapse of a five-year relationship she believed would last forever, Annie Lord is left reeling. Unable to move on, she replays the past in relentless detail, scrutinizing every conversation, every compromise, every moment that led her here.

Between disastrous rebound encounters and late-night Instagram spirals, Annie dissects the relationship piece by piece, searching for clarity and meaning. When understanding finally arrives, it challenges everything she thought she knew about love — and about herself.

Notes on Heartbreak is an intimate, piercing account of love and loss that speaks to anyone who has survived heartbreak, tangled with codependency, or learned that relationships are far more complicated than they appear. Candid and deeply insightful, it captures love at its most intoxicating and its most brutal — the joy and the ache, the beauty and the cruelty, and the ways heartbreak can remake us.