Crazy

'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.

“This book is brilliant - brave, truthful and intelligent Dealing candidly with work, sex and motherhood this searing auto-fictional novel . . . an absolute belter - Daily Mail I have yet to read a better account of the way in which the tales we tell about ourselves are themselves a form of addiction - TLS Stunning . . . a satisfyingly rich and complex narrative that rings so messily true to life, it almost feels transgressive - Daily Mail Terribly funny, appallingly grim, acutely observed. It's wonderful Crackles with energy, integrity and a deep poetic sensibility - Julia Copus 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”

This book is brilliant - brave, truthful and intelligent -- Wendy Cope
Terribly funny, appallingly grim, acutely observed. It's wonderful -- Sean O'Brien
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 -- Richard Beard
Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, Crazy is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences -- Claire Kilroy Guardian
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 -- Anthony Cummins Daily Mail
I have yet to read a better account of the way in which the tales we tell about ourselves are themselves a form of addiction. -- Frances Wilson TLS Times Literary Supplement
[One of the] most startling novels I've read this year and would recommend for total holiday immersion. -- Frances Wilson TLS Times Literary Supplement

Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. After twenty years working in the South West, Jane now lives in Edinburgh.

'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 ' 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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