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<p><b>'One of the best novels I've read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny' Blake Morrison, Author of<i> Two Sisters</i></b><br><b><br>'Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive' Anthony Cummins, <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><b><br>'One of the most startling novels I've read this year' Frances Wilson, </b><i><b>TLS</b></i><br><b><br>'This book is brilliant - brave, truthful and intelligent' Wendy Cope</b><br><br><b>'Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, <i>Crazy </i>is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences' Claire Kilroy, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><i>'</i><i>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'</i><br><br>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.<br><br><i>Crazy</i> 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.</p>