Out of Love
A Novel
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3.6 • 34 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out TodayÂ
“Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library
“A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow
For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope.
Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart.
Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.
Customer Reviews
Out Of Love.
This book is quite interesting: it's a love story being told in reverse (the begging of the story is the end of the relationship and the end is the telling of how the main couple actually first met each other). It's something I've seen or heard of before, but it's still interesting. Also, there are A LOT of pop culture references in here, a lot more than necessary. đź‘€ so that's why I'm rating it three stars: too much pop culture recognition.
Out of Love
I grew annoyed listening to her continue chapter after chapter rehashing every bit of a bad relationship…I couldn’t finish the book.