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Instructions for Heartbreak

Sarah Handyside

Explorations of heartbreak and how to heal it - the trite, the absurd, and the profound (maybe).

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Latest Issues

28 ways to heal heartbreak

Instructions for Heartbreak comes out in paperback a week tomorrow! To celebrate I’ve got an extra-special Heartbreak Seven for you today - or rather, four of them.

Meet Katie, Dee, Liv and Rosa - the four fictional girls - women - naviga...

9 months ago
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Eat the cake

The gift that is the ‘2025 debuts’ WhatsApp group keeps giving - I’m delighted to welcome Jo Morey to the Substack today!

Jo’s fantastic novel The Night Lagoon has just come out in the UK - and under the equally compelling title Lime Juice...

10 months ago
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One way through heartbreak is to get back in touch with your sense of agency

I am so, so thrilled to welcome Natasha Lunn to Instructions for Heartbreak today.

Natasha’s newsletter Conversations on Love started life many years ago - I’ve just searched through my inbox and found them going back to 2021, and it was a...

a year ago
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Every time I’ve had my heart broken it’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me, disguised as the worst

I’m back, baby.

Yes, it’s been a whole month. Excuses? Sicknesses (not mine); missed deadlines (definitely mine); weekends away (deep in the South Downs National Park, utterly gorgeous); some little heartbreaks (such is life); some balm fo...

a year ago
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I think there can be a certain beauty in a little bit of woe

I’m not just encouraging you to pre-order a wonderful upcoming book today, but marking publication day itself. Gabrielle Griffiths’ extraordinary Greater Sins is out TODAY.

Gabrielle’s Heartbreak Seven is a beautiful window into the lyrica...

a year ago
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