Heartbreaker
Author(s): Claudia Dey

Apoignant new novel that combines humour and heartache, from the brilliant mind of Governor Generals Award finalist Claudia Dey

Seventeen years after falling from a stolen car into a remote northern town, Billie Jean Fontaine is still an outsider. She may follow the stifling rules of this odd place, but no one will forget that she came from elsewhere. When Billie Jean vanishes one cold October night in her bare feet and track suit with only her truck keys, those closest to her begin a frantic search. Her daughter, Pony, a girl struggling against being a teen in the middle of nowhere; her killer dog to whom she cannot tell a lie; her husband, The Heavy, a man haunted by his past; and the charismatic Supernatural, a teenage boy longing only to be average. Each holding a different piece of the puzzle, they must come together to understand the darkest secrets of their beloved, and lay bare the mysteries of the human heart.

With her luminous prose, wry humour and dead-on cultural observations, Claudia Dey has created a storytelling tour de force about what it means to love, no matter the consequences.

Review(s):
Heartbreakeris an incandescent flare of a novelacrobatic, devastating, and wickedly funny. It is effortlessly sly and fresh in its language, and I loved it.
AMost Anticipated bookin Publishers Weekly, The Millions, 49th Shelf and Quill & Quire
A Buzz Bookin Chatelaine, Flare and Canadian Living
A whole-cloth, word-for-word triumph.
A mashup of Stranger Things and Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Heartbreaker is a dark star of a book, glittering with mordant humor and astonishing, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Deys wild brain.
An enticing page-turner.
Behold the virtuosity of Heartbreaker! Claudia Dey has a perfect ear and the sharpest eye. Her portrait of Pony Darlene Fontaine, and the strange world she inhabits, is devastating, unsparing and unforgettable.
This book gave me chills all the way through…It convinced me that the deepest of human urges is the pull to find ones true homewhich lies in the hearts of just a few others. I floated in the perfection of its ending… I loved its every page.

I was kidnapped by this novel. Original, alluring and memorable, Claudia Deys Heartbreaker will get under your skin. An electrifying story about buried pasts, dark secrets and dangerous loves that shimmers and sparks.

Imagine a funnier, but more sinister, offspring of Peyton Place and Never Let Me Go, and you approximate the world of this stunning new novel. Claudia Deys beautiful, off-kilter music has been missing from our literary landscape for too long a most welcome return.

ISBN:9781554685509