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“A big, beautiful, beating heart of a story about giving help and learning to accept it.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“The Heartbreak Hotel is a lush, romantic, and devastatingly tender story about finding who you are beneath all your broken pieces. It cracked me wide open and filled me to the brim with hope. Ellen O’Clover is absolutely a romance voice to watch.”—B.K. Borison, New York Times bestselling author of First-Time Caller
“The Heartbreak Hotel is the kind of romance that wraps you up in tenderness and renews your sense of hope. Ellen O'Clover’s writing is both dreamy and precise, filled with gorgeous yearning and profound, heart-clutching empathy. You'll never be happier to cry.”—Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of What Happens in Amsterdam
"The Heartbreak Hotel is a perfect book. Ellen O'Clover is brilliant, writing tenderness, longing, and tension so viscerally that I felt like I was holding my breath the entire time I was reading. Lou and Henry have broken hearts whose edges match up perfectly, and the way they navigated their losses together was, quite simply, transformative. I'll be thinking about the last three words in this book for the rest of my life."—Jessica Joyce, USA Today bestselling author of The Ex Vows
"The Heartbreak Hotel is such a gorgeous, affirming book -- beautiful on a sentence level and powerful on an emotional level. I fell in love with Henry, good with dogs and closed-off with grief, and Louisa, great at helping other people through heartache even when she's going through her own. Ellen O'Clover has such a talent for well-drawn characters and big feelings, I know I will be anticipating every single book she ever puts out."—Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of The Art of Catching Feelings
"Reading The Heartbreak Hotel is a lot like I imagine staying at the Comeback Inn would be—warm, soft, and leaves your heart feeling so beautifully cared for. O'Clover's gorgeous prose made me want to abandon all of my responsibilities and read it in one straight shot. Poignant and life-affirming, this is contemporary romance at its absolute finest!"—Sarah Adler, USA Today bestselling author of Finders Keepers
“Ellen O'Clover has crafted an achingly tender and sweet novel about what can happen when we allow ourselves to love and be loved in return. Reading The Heartbreak Hotel felt like accepting a warm, reassuring hug. I can't wait to read whatever Ellen writes next!”—Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Love Lyric
"The Heartbreak Hotel felt like falling in love and landing in soft hands. I ached and hoped and triumphed right alongside these characters every step of the way. Hopecore in book form."—Tarah DeWitt, USA Today bestselling author of Savor It
“O’Clover’s wonderful romance debut is a story of transformation and renewal wrapped in the warm hug of a tenderhearted romance. Cozy and utterly charming, The Heartbreak Hotel left us wanting never to check out.”—Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of Book Boyfriend
"Ellen O'Clover is one of the great talents of our time. Written with as much aching tenderness and insight to the human heart as all of her work, The Heartbreak Hotel lives up to its name: it breaks our heart and then gives us a safe place to land. As personally healing as it is romantic: this is a gorgeous book."—Anita Kelly, author of Love & Other Disasters
"The Heartbreak Hotel is cozy and steamy and healing, full of heart and depth, all set against the sparkling backdrop of Colorado. I want to read everything Ellen O'Clover writes—I absolutely adored this book!"—Kayla Olson, USA Today bestselling Author of The Lodge and The Reunion
“A gorgeous, hopeful portrayal of life after loss with a message that healing doesn’t have to happen alone, Ellen O'Clover writes some of the most lovingly assembled, thoughtful prose out there – both achingly poignant and tender hearted in its exploration pf heartache and grief and what it means to find love – and hope – again. I loved this book with my whole heart.”—Heather McBreen, author of Wedding Dashers
"Sometimes nothing screams fall quite like a contemporary romance set among the leaves, trees, and idyllic quaintness of a Colorado bed and breakfast. Good thing The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O’Clover is just that...manages to drench readers in picturesque yearning that’ll have them scrolling Airbnbs before they’re even halfway through."—Rolling Stone
“The Heartbreak Hotel shines for its cozy mountain setting, cast of memorable secondary characters, and a romance that allows for real personal growth alongside swoony tension. O’Clover handles themes of trauma, family obligation, and self-worth with sensitivity and never rushes Lou’s healing journey or tries to simplify her complicated relationships. This one is a winner.”—Washington Independent Review of Books
"This is one for the folks who leaf through guest books, wondering at the lives of previous visitors...Grief often feels like the tragic end of a story, but romance novels and this one in particular are a reminder that heartbreak is the middle of your story, not the end of it."—NPR
"O'Clover's adult debut is an engaging romance packed with well-drawn characters readers will love and a story they won’t be able to put down."—Library Journal
