Break.up

'A smart, allusive meditation on the sheer fragility of experience and feeling' Colm Toibin

The internet has collapsed the boundaries of time, space and desire. However far apart lovers are, they can instantly be present. So can they ever really break up?

After the end of a love affair conducted largely online, the narrator of Break.up travels across Europe navigating the complexities of modern love. As she makes her pilgrimage through offline space - on railways, on buses, on planes and, above all, on foot - she crosses the borders of not only place but genre, ranging widely into eclectic essays on music, boredom, shame, photography, marriage and art.

Break.up blends the personal and the intellectual to tell a mystery story about the aftermath of a relationship. From Rome to Budapest, Freud to Foucault, algorithms to nostalgia, Walsh's long-awaited first novel is a stimulating, original work which dismantles what we know of love, and how we make art from it.