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Hey, Zoey
Sarah Crossan
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Description for Hey, Zoey
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A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime.
'Inventive astute and funny' Observer
'As rip-roaring as it is thought provoking' i
'A love triangle, but with a twist' Guardian
'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy
'Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable' Erin Kelly
Imagine discovering an animatronic sex doll hidden in the garage. What would you do?
Dolores initially does nothing. She assumes the doll belongs to ... Read moreher husband, David, and their relationship is already strained. They’re not young, they’re not old; they have no children, they keep up with the markers of being middle class and Dolores is well versed in keeping men’s secrets.
But then, Dolores and Zoey start to talk ...What surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected, with consequences for all of the relationships in her life, especially her relationship to herself.
Hey, Zoey is a propulsive story of love, family, and trauma in our tech-buffered age of alienation, as strange as it is familiar.
'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn
'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen
'A singular writer with her own style and conviction' Irish Times
'It makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister
'The beauty of its prose keeps ... Keeps the reader gripped' Irish Independent
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About Sarah Crossan
Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. Her books for children and teenagers have won many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award. Her first novel for adults, Here Is The Beehive, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim. Sarah’s ... Read morenovels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She currently lives and works in East Sussex. Show Less
Reviews for Hey, Zoey
'Highly inventive, astute and funny ... A thought-provoking reflection on loneliness, love and the search for connection'
Observer
Hilarious … Crossan’s deadpan style is bone-dry, and Dolores’s conversations with Zoey are the best bits of all
Daily Mail
Deep, relatable, depressing, and darkly funny ... Crossan has a knack for capturing utterly normal conversations and trains ... Read moreof thought in ways that are arresting ... Propelled by its style and by the beauty of its prose … Keeps the reader gripped until the last page … It is a deep exploration of the intricacies of human connections and intimacy, as well as an examination of trauma (especially childhood trauma) and its ability to influence our lives, even if we are determined not to let it do so
Irish Independent
This novel is as rip-roaring as it is thought provoking
i
'A singular writer with her own style and conviction ... Thought-provoking ... How do we write about trauma? Ask Sarah Crossan'
Irish Times
Dark humour and offbeat tenderness enhance the intense readability of a book that has plenty to say about contemporary intimacy
Mail on Sunday
Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable. Hey, Zoey is a searing novel about true intimacy and the things humans will do to protect themselves from it. You’ve never read anything quite like it, and only Sarah Crossan could have written it
ERIN KELLY, million-copy bestselling author of The Skeleton Key and Watch Her Fall Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny, Sarah Crossan’s Hey, Zoey explores the impossibility of connection, and the things we hide from ourselves and the people we love
SARAH DUNN, bestselling author of The Arrangement Examining how humanity can be found in unexpected places, one of our most inventive writers, Sarah Crossan, blends comedy, drama and heartbreak in a novel that is as surprising as it is memorable
JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies Hey, Zoey is unique, refreshing and revelatory. Sarah Crossan excels at subtle subversion, marrying delicious dark wit with deep empathy to produce work that reads the zeitgeist perfectly. This stylish, provocative novel isn’t afraid to push the bruise!
HELEN CULLEN, author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually This darkly funny modern love story had me gripped all the way from its compelling opening to its unexpectedly moving and worrying conclusion. Hey, Zoey offers a sharp and sometimes shocking exploration of relationships between friends, lovers and family. It’s intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex; it makes you think, and it makes you feel
LESLEY GLAISTER, author of Little Egypt Hey, Zoey is a flight of the imagination mapping the twilight zone of broken love. Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting, Crossan is elegantly devastating in her ability to evoke our tender, unguarded selves
CLAIRE KILROY, author of Solider Sailor Readers will enjoy this astute page-turner
Publisher's Weekly
Easy to read and equally hard to forget
Kirkus, Starred Review Weird and wild ... You won't be able to put it down
VIP Magazine
A love triangle, but with a twist
Guardian
A funny, insightful tale of love and complicated families
Marie Claire
A roller-coaster read
Heat
From the first paragraph you know that Hey, Zoey is going to be something special … A well-paced journey … Dark and foreboding, yet light and moving… Crossan embraces silence on the page and never overstates the obvious. What is left unsaid are among the parts that shout the loudest
Independent
Full of microaggressions, cultural touchpoints, and self-reflection, Hey, Zoey uses AI sentience to consider the issue of women’s autonomy from a new angle. A page-turner ... But the real surprise and delight of Hey, Zoey is the compelling story and captivating conversation
AP
Hey, Zoey’s ability to provoke feelings throughout and past the novel is ambitious and edgy, making it another intense and intelligent work from Irish novelist Sarah Crossan, who plays with human emotions and language in a deeply memorable and idiosyncratic way. There aren’t many books — or authors — that prompt you to inquire within yourself after the last words have left the page
ourculture Magazine
A startlingly fantastic and original novel. One of my books of the year
Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait
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