Break.up - Hardcover

Melding travel writing with philosophy and emotion, Walsh is a true original (Stylist)

Praise for Break.Up: A novel about love in digital spaces that takes the time to breathe, exhaling into the muggy air of real places. A bereft protagonist is consoled by the energy of philosophical fragments and messy objects. Walsh has surgical expertise in the dissection of online excitements and misdirections but puts us in the sensual world of Dior lipsticks and perfecto jackets. The result is bracing. It's a new real where our emotions are always betwixt and between our devices and what feels like the ache in our heart. (Sherry Turkle, author of Evocative Objects, Alone Together, and Reclaiming Conversation)

Praise for Joanna Walsh:
Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer... artful and intelligent

(New Statesman)

Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers (Deborah Levy)

Walsh's writing has intellectual rigour and bags of formal bravery... boldly intellectual work. (Financial Times)

Praise for Vertigo: Her work trades on the literary genres of the miniature-short stories, essays, even postcards-reminiscent of Marcel Schwob, Clarice Lispector, Roland Barthes, and Lydia Davis (Paris Review)

Original and breathtaking (Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick)

Packs a wallop (Jeff Vandermeer)

Walsh's closest literary ally is probably Lydia Davis, with whom she shares a brevity and starkness of expression. . . Walsh's refreshing humour - sometimes biting; sometimes absurd - lends her work a poignancy that is genuinely affecting (Times Literary Supplement)

Beautifully simple and unembellished, Walsh's writing - most captivating in its ability to unnerve - is cleverly revealing (Claire Hazelton Guardian)