Crazy
On sale
8th April 2021
Price: £9.99
‘One of the best novels I’ve read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny’ Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters
‘Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive’ Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail
‘One of the most startling novels I’ve read this year’ Frances Wilson, TLS
‘This book is brilliant – brave, truthful and intelligent’ Wendy Cope
‘Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, Crazy is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences’ Claire Kilroy, Guardian
‘I will break him; he will break me, and when we are broken, we will be even, and then we can be put back together again’
Jane has been accustomed to clever, undemonstrative men. So when, as a young woman, she meets Ardu, she is instantly bewitched by his intellect and detachment. What starts as a crush turns into something far darker, an all-consuming obsession, from which, years later, she is still reeling.
Crazy is a work of autofiction, a startling story of obsessive love, addiction, motherhood and work. It is a reckoning with fiction and with truth: how these things play out on the body; what it takes for a woman to write out her own life.
‘Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive’ Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail
‘One of the most startling novels I’ve read this year’ Frances Wilson, TLS
‘This book is brilliant – brave, truthful and intelligent’ Wendy Cope
‘Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, Crazy is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences’ Claire Kilroy, Guardian
‘I will break him; he will break me, and when we are broken, we will be even, and then we can be put back together again’
Jane has been accustomed to clever, undemonstrative men. So when, as a young woman, she meets Ardu, she is instantly bewitched by his intellect and detachment. What starts as a crush turns into something far darker, an all-consuming obsession, from which, years later, she is still reeling.
Crazy is a work of autofiction, a startling story of obsessive love, addiction, motherhood and work. It is a reckoning with fiction and with truth: how these things play out on the body; what it takes for a woman to write out her own life.
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Reviews
Terribly funny, appallingly grim, acutely observed. It's wonderful
Wonderful. Heart-bumpingly evocative of place and time, and a resonant, compelling act of creative remembering, of early life regrets and mistakes that might not have been either
Stunning . . . Tackling sex, writing and office politics, Jane shrewdly eyes her youthful guilelessness in a satisfyingly rich and complex narrative that rings so messily true to life, it almost feels transgressive
Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, Crazy is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences
I was blown away by Crazy. A book without the slightest self-importance, fed by a subterranean stream one part anger to two parts love, and all done with the kind of skill and care that marks Jane Feaver out as a writer in the top rank. Brilliant
This book is brilliant - brave, truthful and intelligent
Set amid the debris of a marriage which still haunts her, Feaver's beautifully written and startlingly frank book is so humane in its hard-won wisdom that every reader will recognise themselves in it
Crackles with energy, integrity and a deep poetic sensibility. A raw and disturbing story of obsessive attraction, it obsesses the reader also, with the force of a haunting