Bad girls are the new It girls - and wild child Ann-Marie is leading the way for this new generation of anti-heroines.
Zoe Pilger writes about contemporary art for the Independent and won the 2011 Frieze Writer's Prize. She is currently working on a PhD at Goldsmith's college and lives in London. Eat My Heart Out is her first novel.
Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out made me think that Pilger might be
the heiress to Angela Carter.
*Independent*
Hooray for Zoe Pilger: her debut novel is about the London we know
and love and it is dead smart and gloriously, mercifully,
snort-out-loud hilarious ... Eat My Heart Out is the hipster
Bridget Jones's Diary it's ok to like
*Dazed and Confused*
Like a foul-mouthed Nancy Mitford for the Gawker generation, Zoe
Pilger brings a ruthlessly sharp eye to our muddled and indulgent
times. Eat My Heart Out is viciously, violently funny, and marks
the arrival of a fearsome new voice in British fiction.
*Sam Byers, author of 'Idiopathy'*
Pilger has been compared to Sheila Heti and Lena Dunham but she is
funnier
*The Bookseller*
Eat My Heart Out is a romantic comedy without the romance; clever
and biting, it is a satirical look at the narcissistic lives of
twentysomethings in our post-post-feminist era
*The Bookseller*
A post-feminist, female equivalent of Bret Easton Ellis, Zoe Pilger
is definitely one to watch; her writing is fast-paced, audacious,
disjointed and dizzying, perfectly capturing the volatility,
frustration, fear and arrogance of being young ... Eat My Heart Out
is sure to take your breath away.
*For Books' Sake*
Meet 2014's funniest new writer ... a brutally honest story about
being young, female and totally heartbroken.
*Company*
A biting look at contemporary feminism, sexuality and romance
*Observer*
A properly funny novel about being young and in London nowabouts
... I just finished Zoe Pilger's debut , which I got a massive kick
out of Eat My Heart Out from start to finish ... it's narrated by a
sassy and hilarious and completely charming young maniac called
Ann-Marie. It's a glorious hoot from start to finish: I really wish
there were more novels like this these days.
*The Quietus*
Shades of Sheila Heti but British and much funnier
*Bookseller*
A wild and wicked rampage through the psyche of a lost young woman.
Zoe Pilger's outrageous take on modern life packs a punch ...
Super-smart, funny and dark as midnight.
*Marie Claire*
A roaring page-turner ... Zoe Pilger writes with such infectious
rage that ... some readers may find their hands trembling slightly
as they do the turning ... ferociously dark ... not since Martin
Amis's early work can I remember a novel so exhilarated - and made
so exhilarating - by its own sense of disgust.
*Daily Mail*
It fizzes with exploded declarations and flicker-switch emotions
... The dialogue is fresh and clipped, and Pilger is particularly
good with voices ... This book certainly has a force-field.
*Guardian*
Very funny ... In many ways Eat My Heart Out resembles an updated
and anglicised version of Bret Easton Ellis' Rules Of
Attraction
*Emerald Street*
A bold debut ... instantly gripping ... it's refreshing to read a
novel about a strident and flawed young woman rather than a
simpering heroine ... a thought-provoking read.
*Stylist*
Bristles with outrage and extravagant absurdity ... dark and
funny
*TLS*
Craving whatever she hasn't got and detesting whatever she has, Zoe
Pilger's brilliant and psychically bulimic narrator is everyone's
anti-Bridget Jones. An awareness of the pathology of romantic love,
and a terror of what lies in its absence, lies at the heart of this
brutally funny book.
*Chris Kraus, author of 'I Love Dick'*
Is nothing sacred in Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out? Sorry, nope.
Fuck, marry, kill? Invert, elevate, (to) degrade? Protagonist
Ann-Marie wanders through London's glittery sub-sub-scene of Bright
Young Artists, parodically concussed by life itself. A sharp
exercise in mimicry and betrayal, Pilger's love story fictionalizes
her contexts so extremely that every adolescent romance-with art,
feminism, even that gross dude you had a one night stand with-is
only a deceptive form mobilized to assault neutered authority. But
this doesn't come at no cost-Pilger's revenge means she's slicing
those ubiquitous art world salmon filets off her own tail. A
masochistic siren song. 100% more awesome than The Little
Mermaid.
*Trisha Low , author of The Compleat Purge*
Some genuine laugh-out-loud moments - especially thanks to a few
very witty observations of the hipster scene
*Heat*
Funny and smart
*Sunday Business Post*
If you like your humour dark and your romantic comedies without the
romance, then Eat My Heart Out is for you ... a promising first
novel
*Sunday Independent (Ireland)*
The exuberantly seamy Eat My Heart Out is just what a fledgling
writer's first book ought to be: a funny, intimate and impolite
whizz through being young, pretentious and lost. Ann-Marie's
pursuit of love and feminism in a preposterous hipster London made
me laugh out loud.
*Independent*
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