The Heartfix: An Online Dating Diary

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Shocking, tender and funny as gripping as a thriller Miranda Sawyer

Mind-boggling, heart-rending and darkly comic, this is the full story for the first time, from the writer of the Guardian column Midlife Exwife.
When her husband fell in love with someone else, Stella Grey thought shed be unhappy for the rest of her life. But then she realised that she needed to take her future in her own hands. She needed to meet someone wonderful, and find a heartfix for heartbreak.

So, she joined online dating sites and embarked on a mission. What followed were 693 days of encounters, on screen and in person: dates in cafs and over glasses of astringent red wine, short term relationships and awkward sex, but mostly there were phone calls and emails (many, many emails). Her journey was never dull, featuring marriage proposals, invitations to Tangier, badly timed food poisoning and much younger men but was it ultimately successful

Totally compulsive, painfully true and darkly comic, this is an unputdownable account of one womans search for love online.

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Stella's search for genuine romance in a virtual world takes her to situations both scary and silly, appalling and appealing. And yet, she carries on, and we're with her all the way Miranda Sawyer

A Bridget Jones for the internet dating age. This book is like a bathroom gossip with your best friend stories of terrible men and terrible sex Plum Sykes

Eye-opening and scary, I could not stop reading this Katie Fforde

Enjoyed Stella Greys The Heartfix. The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally line: Tell me Ill never be out there again Jojo Moyes, via Twitter

Author Bio

Stella Grey is the writer of the Guardian column Mid-Life Ex-Wife. The Heartfix: An Online Dating Diary was published in 2016.