{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61c35bbbbaae0b001418ba5c/67b63283b36782a0375e009d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 4.05 Sarah Handyside - Instructions for Heartbreak","description":"<p>In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Sarah Handyside about her contemporary novel Instructions for Heartbreak.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/debutconfessions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Confessions of a Debut Novelist Bookshop</a>*</p><p><br></p><p>Buy Instructions for Heartbreak: <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9781035032754\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9781035032754</a></p><p>Follow Sarah: <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sarahhandyside/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@sarahhandyside</a></p><p><br></p><p>Follow Chloe on Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/clotimms\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@clotimms</a></p><p>Buy Chloe's debut novel The Seawomen: <a href=\"https://linktr.ee/chloetimms\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://linktr.ee/chloetimms</a></p><p><a href=\"https://open.acast.com/shows/61c35bbbbaae0b001418ba5c/episodes/chloetimms.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">chloetimms.co.uk</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>*affiliate link - if you buy books linked to the Bookshop.org site, I may earn a commission.</p>","author_name":"Chloe Timms"}