num_pages: 336
description: Lost, anxious, and adrift, Claire Vornoff heads for the country to seek the care of Declan Farrell, an iconoclastic practitioner of alternative medicine, as her growing attachment to Farrell soon begins to deepen into obsession, in an erotically charged novel that captures the nature of obsession, the challenges of contemporary urban life, and the ambiguity of love. A first novel.
language: English
title: Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
titlecomplete: Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
genres: Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 41
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt