Episode 4.05 Sarah Handyside - Instructions for Heartbreak

In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Sarah Handyside about her contemporary novel Instructions for Heartbreak. We discuss how her own heartbreak was the catalyst to write this book, why the device of including a handbook gave her a helpful way to structure the novel and how a longlisting in the Curtis Brown First Novel Award attracted her agent.  Confessions of a Debut Novelist Bookshop* Buy Instructions for Heartbreak: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9781035032754 Follow Sarah: @sarahhandyside Follow Chloe on Twitter: @clotimms Buy Chloe's debut novel The Seawomen: https://linktr.ee/chloetimms chloetimms.co.uk  *affiliate link - if you buy books linked to the Bookshop.org site, I may earn a commission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.