(If) Love Isn't Real: A Collection on and Everything It Leaves Behind

What if a stranger becomes the person you can't stop thinking about?What if the fear of falling in love was actually a real place?What if one touch becomes a memory, a memory becomes an obsession, and suddenly someone else has the power to break you?'(If) Love Isn't Real' is an intimate, unapologetically raw poetry collection and flash fiction about desire, vulnerability, obsession, heartbreak, and the strange ways love changes us.But love isn't always soft.Here, love is a monster waiting outside the door. It is a spicy chicken burger that burns even as you crave another bite. It is a sunspot, a storm, a broken heart, a hand reaching through the darkness.Tender one moment and unsettling the next, this love poetry book wanders through first attraction, forbidden feelings, intimacy, distance, and loss - blurring the line between love and longing, comfort and fear, devotion and dependence.For the hearts that have loved too loudly, held on too tightly, broken quietly, and still dared to believe that something beautiful might be waiting on the other side of goodbye.Alexandra Turner is a British writer of poems about love and loss, fables, stories, and adventures. Her work '(If) Love Isn't Real' blends tenderness, darkness, surrealism, and humour - sometimes all on the same page.Because love, like life, is rarely simple.