Hazel Hayes

Out of Love

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'I fell in love with this book. The writing was good enough to make me forget I had a phone, put it that way' Aisling Bea

A novel
for anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale.
As a young woman packs up her ex-boyfriend’s belongings and prepares to see him one last time, she wonders where it all went wrong, and whether it was ever right to begin with. Burdened with a broken heart, she asks herself the age-old question . . . is love really worth it?
Out of Love is a bittersweet romance told in reverse. Beginning at the end of a relationship, each chapter takes us further back in time, weaving together an already unravelled tapestry, from tragic break-up to magical first kiss. In this dazzling debut Hazel Hayes performs a post-mortem on love, tenderly but unapologetically exploring every angle, from the heights of joy to the depths of grief, and all the madness and mundanity in between. This is a modern story with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic and ultimately full of hope.
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330 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
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Quotes

  • Eileen Antonyhas quoted2 years ago
    I was just too naive and too arrogant to believe he would do it to me. We all think we’ll be different, don’t we?
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted2 years ago
    So until next week, whatever your brain tells you – that you’re useless, that you’re broken, that you’re unfixable – just hear it, acknowledge it and try to let it pass. You are not broken just because your brain says so.’
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted2 years ago
    Nadia tells me about another study they did where they put three groups of dogs in harnesses. Nothing happened to the first group, the second group received electric shocks that they could stop by pushing a lever, and the third group were shocked too, but they had no way of stopping it. Later, they put all the dogs in cages, which they could easily escape from, and administered electric shocks again. The first and second group just walked out, but the third lay down and took it.
    ‘They had learned that there was nothing they could do to stop the pain,’ says Nadia. ‘They believed they had no control, and so they allowed themselves to suffer. It’s called learned helplessness.’

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